<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751"><div style="" class=""><div class="" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_54" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class=""><span style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_20">At the IEEE conference in Montreal, june 1. I presented the two recent Activations for the Haiyan Typhoon in Philippines and </span>the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. <span style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_20">Below is the
link to the Shareslide of my presentation where s</span>ome<span style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_20"> Videos are inserted.<br></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_27"><span style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_20">http://fr.slideshare.net/pierzen/open-streetmap-responsetohumanitariancrisishaiyanebolaieeemontreal20130601</span></div><div id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_48" class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_20"><br style=""></span></div><div class=""
id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_30" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_20">I wanted to show the context of intervention when respond to such humanitarian crisis, how the OSM community progressed rapidly and offered innovative products. The
contributions in collaboration with the Red Cross (Tacloban) and with CartONG / MSF and Red Cross (Ebola outbreak) were awesome. The various products and services provided to the humanitarians made the difference as expressed by the various media updates. A study has been presented recently by REACH about the Damage assessments made by the OSM community for the Haiyan Typhoon. Like all the other organizations that did these assessments, we used satellite imagery of 50 cm resolution of poor quality. In storm related events, this is a real problem. You can appreciate with the various comparisons of imagery presented. <br style="" class=""></span></div><br id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_68" style="" class=""><div id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_1_1401983800383_4953" class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_1_1401983800383_4842" face="Arial" size="2">Progress has been made to assure usability of OSM data for the humanitarian organizations and Wireless applications offer a good potential to progress in this direction. As more projects are developped with the humanitarian community, we should progress with more usability of the OSM data in the future activations, and respond
to the needs of these organizations in quite challenging operational contexts.<br style="" class=""></font></div><br style="" class=""><div class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_1_1401983800383_3275" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_20">Every
new intervention is different and the international community has to
improvize and respond rapidly. About lessons learned, let's hope that
we will be able to find ways to even better integrate the remote
participation of the OpenStreetMap community with the UN Agencies and
International organizations in the future.</span></div><br style="" class="">regard<br style="" class=""><div style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_6"> </div><div style="" class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_19"><span class="" id="yiv7696195751yui_3_16_0_5_1401983800383_8" style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br style="" class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>