[HOT] Fwd: Ecuador EQ - assisting with Ushahidi platform

Tue Apr 19 18:58:12 UTC 2016

Dear Punit (et ali)
Thanks a lot for your message. I´m CC to Daniel, Pamela and the other
coordinators who will find so useful your learned lessons

Ecuador team: Punit was in charge of the Nepal deployment. Please find
attached his advices and recomendations that for sure will be useful for
all of us here.

Per, thanks a lot!!! I´m feeling like an uncle of SBTF and is great to see
how you guys are supporting all this! Thanks

Mil gracias
Luis

2016-04-19 4:59 GMT-05:00 Punit Jajodia <punit at parewalabs.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I don't know any Spanish but I'd like to chip in with some lessons from my
> experience. I worked as volunteer co-ordinator during the April earthquake
> in Nepal, supporting the amazing work Kathmandu Living Labs was doing with
> quakemap.org and quakerelief.info.
>
> 1. First task is to get enough reports on the system for it to be usable.
> Lots of facebook groups, chats and twitter statuses are a rich source of
> information but they still need to be mapped.
>
> One team of volunteers need to immediately start taking these reports from
> social media and putting them on the Ushahidi deployment. Once the number
> of reports crosses 500, the media, public and responders will start taking
> the effort seriously and you'll have reports coming in automatically. Make
> sure you include the source (link to twitter feed, facebook status, news
> item etc.) in the description field so that we can remove duplicate reports
> when the dust settles down a bit.
>
> 2. Setup a process, everyone doing everything isn't a great idea. Divide
> the volunteers into teams that do only one specific work. I've attached a
> presentation that outlines the team division and the workflow that we
> created during the April earthquake.If needed, we can arrange a Skype call
> so that I can explain the workflow to the team.
>
> 3. When a report appears on the deployment and multiple responders engage
> their resources, it is a loss of valuable time. Explain clearly to the
> responders that they need to communicate with the volunteer team. If they
> are responding to a report, they should add a comment on the report that
> they are taking care of it e.g if the Red Cross is sending medical supplies
> to a certain place based on information from a report, they should add the
> sentence "Red Cross is sending a team in this location" as a comment to the
> report.
>
> If they face any problems while responding, they should add another
> comment. If a report is closed(either because the casualties couldn't be
> saved or relief was provided), they should again add another comment to the
> report giving this update.
>
> Please check this report http://quakemap.org/reports/view/2174 as an
> example of how comments can be useful.
>
> 4. A dedicated team of volunteers should read the comments and update the
> report status. They should also add any updates they might have based on
> their verification as comments. We had added a field called "Actionable" to
> every report that would specify whether the report was "actionable",
> "non-actionable", "urgent" or "closed". The team of "comment approvers"
> would read the comments coming in and change this "actionable" status so
> that people could filter out "non-actionable" and "closed" reports. This
> was very useful in the later days because we knew exactly which reports
> didn't need to be acted upon.
>
> 5. It is very tempting to try to give user ids to every organization and
> ask them to update the reports themselves, but from our experience, this
> doesn't work. All organizations will be too busy focusing on relief efforts
> so asking them to add comments and having a dedicated team of volunteers
> reading these comments and updating the report status is the right way to
> go.
>
> 6. Explain to people how to use the CSV export feature to allow people to
> download the reports in excel format. This is very useful when working with
> less tech savvy organizations and for printing out the reports for offline
> access.
>
> Feel free to reply with any questions or feedback.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Nirab Pudasaini <
> developer.nirab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> KLL might be able to help with their experience of quakemap deployment
>> during Nepal earthquake. CC ed in this email is Punit Jajodia who was
>> heavily involved with quakemap. I will let him reply.
>>
>> Regards
>> Nirab
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Tasauf A Baki Billah <
>> tasauf1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Standby Task Force" <mail at standbytaskforce.ning.com>
>>> Date: Apr 19, 2016 2:07 PM
>>> Subject: Ecuador EQ - assisting with Ushahidi platform
>>> To: "tasauf1980 at gmail.com" <tasauf1980 at gmail.com>
>>> Cc:
>>>
>>> As you know, the SBTF has engaged in information gathering on the
>>> Ecuador Earthquake.
>>>
>>> In addition, we have a request from a volunteer group sitting in Quito
>>> running a crowdmap.
>>> https://mapa.desastre.ec
>>>
>>> They need a hand for coordination of volunteers; Assigning tasks and
>>> assisting with the platform.
>>>
>>> The working language is Spanish. You may be able to help - or you may
>>> forward this to someone who have experience with Ushahidi & crowdmap
>>> deployments?
>>>
>>> Connect with me: <per at standbytaskforce.com> or Luis <
>>> luishernando at gmail.com> if you can contribute?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Per
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>
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>
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