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

Wed Apr 20 04:30:30 UTC 2016

Hi Daniel, Pamela and the Others,

This is Nama from Kathmandu Living Labs. I will be happy to jump in a Skype
call along with Nirab and Punit if that is easier than emails. I am
namabudhathoki in Skype.

Nama

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Luis Hernando Aguilar <
luishernando at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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