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Mikel MaronJesse Robbins
Disaster Tech
Learn how to turn your emerging technology into
lifesaving technology.
Pattern: Disaster Tech Innovation
1.Disaster
2.Ad-Hoc Adaptation
3.Championship
4.Iterative Improvement
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Hurricane Katrina
‣ 1800+ Dead
‣ Millions displaced
‣ $81+ Billion in Damage
Ad-Hoc Adaptation:
Many Using Gmaps
http://twitter.com/nateritter
ARC: “Take the I-90 bridge...”Jesse: “The bridge is destroyed”ARC: “but Google says...”
Problem: Google Maps isn’t Realtime
http://twitter.com/nateritter
Post Katrina
2007
2007
Champion:
OpenStreetMap (OSM)
Iteration:
UN considering OSM•UNJLC Interagency Humanitarian
Common Service
•Building UNSDI-t from the top down
•But now considering OSM for lightweight, open bottom up
Pattern: Disaster Tech Innovation
1.Disaster
2.Ad-Hoc Adaptation
3.Championship
4.Iterative Improvement
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San Diego Wildfires
‣ 900,000+ Evacuees
‣ 500,000 Acres Burned
‣ 1500+ Homes Destroyed
Ad-Hoc Adaptation:
Nate Ritter’s Twitters
http://twitter.com/nateritterhttp://twitter.com/nateritter
Ad-hoc Adaptation:
American Red Cross
http://twitter.com/redcross
Champion:
InSTEDD - SMS GeoChat
Iteration:
InSTEDD
Working with traditional Disaster Agencies to build new tools.
Distributing work as Open Source
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Boxing Day Tsunami
225,000 Dead
Boxing Day Tsunami
225,000 Deaths
Preventable with existing technologies
Ad-Hoc Adaptation:
JRC Tsunami Model
1.USGS GeoRSS earthquake feed
2.EU Commission lightweight tsunami propagation model
3.GeoRSS polygons republished
Ad-Hoc Adaptation:
JRC Tsunami Model
Champion:
GDACS: Global Disaster Alert & Coordination System
http://www.gdacs.org
Iteration:
Pending.
Will these technologies save lives?We won’t know until they do... or don’t.
saving lives means
losing lives
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anti-pattern
Anti-Pattern
1.Disaster
2.Ad-Hoc Adaptation
3.Championship
4.Iterative Improvement
Ad-hoc Adaptation:
Tenacious SearchDistributed analysis of imagery for Search & RescueImages put into Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing tool.Possible hits sent to experts for review.
Source: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-08/ff_jimgray_lost
Champion:
none.
Public now believes that this is easily repeatable.
Iteration:
Steve Fossett SearchInadequate training for volunteers.Many false positives.People called SAR teams directly which hindered search.
Anti-Pattern“In hindsight, I wish it hadn’t been there, because it didn’t produce a darn thing that was productive except for being a giant black hole for energy, time and resources. There may come a day when this technology is capable of doing what it says it can deliver, but boy, that’s not now.”
- Maj. Cynthia Ryan
http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/11/08/the-perils-of-the-distributed-approach/
New Champions: InternetSAR
New Champions: InternetSAR“ABSOLUTELY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES are InternetSAR.org participants to report objects found in imagery we provide directly to search authorities. [...] The reason for this policy is that our systems are set up to manage and filter reports for search teams and those who bypass our reporting system can actually impede the efforts of search teams.”
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Pattern: Disaster Tech Innovation
1.Disaster
2.Ad-Hoc Adaptation
3.Championship
4.Iterative Improvement
Be Champions
you don’t choose the moment...the moment chooses you.
You only choose how prepared you are when it does...
-Chief Mike Burtch
Mikel Maron - [email protected] Robbins - [email protected]