[HOT] New Report "Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management: Workshop Summary"

[Lea Shanley]

The Wilson Center Commons Lab just released the workshop report for
Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management, explores the
opportunities as well as the research and policy challenges of mass
collaboration and social media for disaster management.

Press Release: http://bit.ly/1eAbsJX

Free PDF Report: http://bit.ly/17nEubU

It also can be found here:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/connecting-grassroots-to-government-for-disaster-management-workshop-summary

So many people to thank for their contributions and feedback to workshop
and summary report. In addition to the Crisis Mapping, HOT, and
CrisisCommons communities, we would like to thank:

The Wilson Center is thankful for the collaboration and support of our
co-hosts:
- the National Association of Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation;
- the International Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response
and Management
- the University ofColorado, Boulder’s Project EPIC; and
- NetHope.

The Wilson Center also greatly appreciates the generous co-sponsorship of
Esri, which is an industry leader in geographic information systems.

We also would like to thank TechChange, which provides scalable and
interactive technology training for social change. The staff of TechChange
provided in-kind social media support for two panel sessions through a
customized platform that they had developed to ingest comments and
monitorsocial media feeds, engaging both their students and people globally
in 30 countries for
real-time Q&A with the panelists and in-person participants. The keynote
sessions were
“Agency Vision and Decision-Maker Needs” on September 13 (
http://techchange.org/
live-events/wilson-center-agency-vision-and-decision-maker-needs/), and
“Connecting
Grassroots to Government through Open Innovation” (
http://techchange.org/live-events/
wilson-center-connecting-grassroots-to-government-through-open-innovation/)
on
September 14, 2012.

The Wilson Center acknowledges and greatly appreciates the work of the
steering
committee that helped to design this workshop, including:
- John Crowley, Public Policy Scholar for the Commons Lab and Research
Coordinator for
the Crisis Dynamics Program, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
- John Bwarie, Strategy and Communications Officer for the Science
Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) Project, Natural Hazards Mission
Area, U.S. Geological Survey;
- Michael Goodchild,Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of
California, Santa Barbara;
-Gisli Olafsson, Emergency Response Director, NetHope;
- Leysia Palen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of
Colorado, Boulder;
- Eric Rasmussen, Vice President, AccessAgility, and Managing Director,
Infinitum Humanitarian Systems;
- Christopher Strager, Director of the National Weather Service, Eastern
Region, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration;
- Bartel Van de Walle, President, International Association for Information
Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), and Associate
Professor of
Information Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg
University.
 All generously gave of their time and expertise, providing ideas and
feedback on the agenda, and identifying and inviting speakersand attendees.
Committee members also served as moderators for many of the sessions.

The Wilson Center would like to thank the moderators and panelists who
presented material
to initiate the discussion and orient attendees for each session. In
addition, the workshop
would not have been as interesting or as productive without the important
contributions of
the 95 people who attended the event in person, as well as the 707 unique
visitors who
participated in the event via live webcast from 30 countries, including the
United States,
Venezuela, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands,
Sweden,
Germany, Kenya, and Taiwan. Many of these folks and others also offered
their ideas
and questions via email and social media, generating more than 13,000
tweets using
the hashtag #dg2g. Several of the participating organizations also provided
posters and
demonstrations to showcase recent research, experimentation, and pilot
projects.

Lastly, Zachary Bastian, Eric Rasmussen, Rebecca Goolsby, Gisli Olafsson,
and A. Riley Eller wrote white papers and a presentation to provide context
and starting points for the session discussions.

A summary of the social media engagement for the workshop also was
compiled. These are
included in the appendixes C through H.
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