[HOT] 2013 North India Floods : OpenStreetMap contribution

[Andrew Buck]

To elaborate on this idea further, the idea of liaisons is to be a person
(or group of people) who will be a permanent link between OSM/HOT and a
specific NGO.  The purpose of the liaison group is to meet regularly with
their NGO contacts and discuss problems/feedback for the relationship with
HOT and then feed that back to the community.  I.E. to be a bridge between
HOT and a given NGO.

In the particular case of India with the recent flooding, we got some
requests to map areas, without any real specific instructions on what/where
to map, and then in became apparent that the data wasn't being used, so the
activation kind of died out.  If we get proper requests from NGO's and and
some kind of indication of how they plan to utilize the data then I think
there are plenty of people willing to contribute.

The liaison procedures are still being formalized and we plan to try them
out with the upcoming work in Africa, but if there are NGO's who want to
work with us in India, we could further test this procedure there as well.
We need to be careful that when we ask volunteers to work on a given
project, that the data contributed actually gets used in the field.  This
was another key point discussed in the Actvation Working Group meeting that
Russ mentioned.

-AndrewBuck
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