[HOT] [hotosm-membership] Feedback needed: Organizational Strategy for 2014-2015

[Tim McNamara]

Done. Thanks for the opportunity to comment.

Tim McNamara
@timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks> | timmcnamara.co.nz

<http://timmcnamara.co.nz/>


On 28 August 2014 09:35, Schuyler Erle <schuyler at nocat.net> wrote:

> Hello Team!
>
> One of the first deliverables from last month's Board of Directors meeting
> in Washington was a draft "organizational strategy" for the Humanitarian
> OpenStreetMap Team for the coming twelve months.
>
>   http://goo.gl/Rfkrsc
>
> This document is intended to provide a kind of basic framework for
> understanding the work of our team over the next year, and capture the
> vision, mission, values, beneficiaries, and goals of the organization. We
> hope to use the strategy document both as a touchstone for ourselves, as
> well as a kind of "executive summary" of the organization for explaining
> our role and purposes to funders, partners, and the wider world.
>
> Consequently, it's of the utmost importance that the strategy document
> reflect *your* concept of what HOT is and what it's trying to do. We've
> tried to capture the essence of the organization in a two page draft, but
> we can't regard it as complete until we have your reflection and input.
> Please -- it's only two pages, and it'll take only a few minutes of your
> time to review and comment with questions or recommendations.
>
> Please review and comment here:  http://goo.gl/Rfkrsc
>
> Please also feel free to discuss the broader topic of organization
> strategy right here on the mailing list!
>
> I'm also including the text in the body of this message so that you have
> no excuse not to read it. ;-)
>
> Stay HOT, everybody!
>
> SDE
>
> ---
>
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Organizational Strategy
> September 2014 - August 2015
>
>
> Background
> -----------------
> The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) began as an idea almost when
> OpenStreetMap started. Having freely available geographic data has many
> benefits, one of the greatest is in response to a disaster. Originally an
> informal community in 2010 HOT incorporated as a non-profit corporation in
> Washington D.C. in the United States, then seeking public charity
> (501(c)(3)) status which was awarded February 13, 2013.
>
> The people that make up HOT consist of staff, contractors, volunteers and
> partners. Currently HOT is made up of 11 staff and 2 part-time regular
> contractors, as well as many project based consultants and thousands of
> volunteers. These people work together as a team to respond to disasters,
> develop and support software to enhance OSM, provide training in disaster
> preparedness with OSM, and otherwise support HOT’s overall mission.
>
> Over the past year HOT has had many successes, some of the major ones are:
>         • the community has successfully responded disasters and crisis
> all over the world including Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the
> political crisis in the Central African Republic and the Ebola outbreak in
> West Africa
>         • Major updates to software including the release of the Tasking
> Manager 2 has occurred and LearnOSM now is available in 9 languages.
>         • The HOT program has provided training programs and technical
> support in 10 countries over the past year.
>
> HOT has learned much over the years and has continued to grow and gain
> capacity to better execute on its mission. The coming year will not be
> without challenges though.
>         • As HOT successfully responds to a multitude of crisis the demand
> for volunteers to map increases. How to recruit and train new volunteers
> and then retain them?
>         • For field data collection the tools and techniques aren’t
> perfect yet how to improve them?
>         • HOT has been sustained almost entirely by project funding, the
> organization would benefit from more stable overall funding.
>         • A diverse community in culture and language how can OSM be made
> more accessible and how can the HOT community be more inclusive?
>
> Vision
> ---------
> Communities living in vulnerable environments and areas are empowered to
> create and utilize geographic data to play an active role in their own
> economic development and resiliency.
>
> Mission
> ----------
> The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) applies the principles of open
> source and open data sharing for humanitarian response and economic
> development.
> Values
> HOT’s core values are key to how we execute our mission. In order to
> assist the people and communities we work with in an open and respectful
> way our values guide us.
>         • Local communities come first
>         • Open data and open source
>         • Collaboration
>         • Open participation
>         • People come before data
>         • Projects are planned with sustainability in mind
>         • Technical capacity building
>         • Support solidarity between OSM communities
>
> Beneficiaries
> ------------------
> HOT’s primary beneficiaries are those living in vulnerable places lacking
> detailed and current geographic data. HOT broadly defines “vulnerable
> places” as locales which are prone to natural disasters, or other crises,
> that tend to adversely affect the safety or security of those who reside
> there.
>
> HOT’s supporting constituents are our volunteers, staff and partners.
> These individuals and organizations are key to HOT accomplishing our
> mission.
>
> Goals
> --------
>
> HOT has three areas of focus, which are community, program and
> organization. These items are interlinked and support the following broad
> goals.
>         • Support local resilience
>         • Disseminate technical skills
>         • Respond effectively to crises
>         • Help spread open data
>         • Become a more effective organization
>
> Success in these goals will be measured according to the quantitative
> indicators enumerated in a separate document: http://goo.gl/NyOhX1
>
>
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