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Eric Gundersen

Jul 21, 2010

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Haiti: Mapping Who is Working on What, Where

HaitiAidMap.org opens up operational data

HaitiAidMap.org launched this past week with a large data update. The site maps hundreds of projects in Haiti being run by dozens of NGOs operating on the ground. This visual linking of project data to organizations, clusters, and communes is key...
AJ Ashton

Jan 29, 2010

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Post-Earthquake Map Tiles for Haiti

Haiti Terrain Maps and OpenStreetMap Tiles on MapBox

We just added seven new map tilesets of Haiti to MapBox.com, created after the January 12 earthquake. Two of these sets are of terrain baselayers - one is a clean grey tile designed to be overlaid with data visualizations and the other is a terrain...
Bonnie Bogle

Jul 11, 2009

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Resilience Meeting Discussing Pandemic Preparedness, H1N1, and Open Communications

Yesterday’s meeting at the White House on H1N1 preparedness focused heavily on openness and information sharing. Officials and experts talked about how policy impacts the ability to share information and how it can be modified to better...
Bonnie Bogle

Jun 12, 2009

Making Open Data Useful and Usable for Disaster Relief: Ignite Talk Tonight

Tonight Tom MacWright will lead an ignite talk on how open data can be made more usable, and he'll show how we did this with TIGER mapping data - which includes shape files of school districts, voting districts, county boundaries, and more - by...
Bonnie Bogle

Jun 12, 2009

CrisisCamp This Weekend: Looking at How Technology Can Improve Disaster Response

This weekend CrisisCamp is coming to Washington, DC to advance the conversation around how technology can be best used to improve how we respond to disasters and other humanitarian crises. Eric, Robert, and Tom will be there from Development Seed...
Bonnie Bogle

Sep 8, 2008

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Drupal Meetup in Geneva: Talking Drupal and Humanitarian Relief

In Geneva? Come Out for Tonight's Drupal Meetup

Eric and I landed in Geneva, Switzerland this morning to talk with several humanitarian organizations about Drupal and how they can use it as a communications tool, and we’ll also be meeting up with some local Drupalers. Geneva is holding one...
Eric Gundersen

Oct 23, 2007

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Innovation to Improve Humanitarian Action

Kicking off the Global Symposium +5 in Geneva

I just got out of a working group where we outlined best practices, key issues, standards, and recommendations for Innovation to Improve Humanitarian Action, which will be presented at the Global Symposium +5 that starts tomorrow...
Eric Gundersen

Aug 2, 2007

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Disaster Assistance on a USB Stick, Powered by Drupal

Making Preparedness Information More Accessible

Yesterday we handed off the beta version of the new Disaster Assistance component Kit that we built for the American Institute of Architects’ Communities by Design Initiative. The kit is a fully functional disaster preparedness curriculum that...
Eric Gundersen

Dec 6, 2005

Selling ringtones on Arlo Guthrie's tour for Katrina?

The AP reported yesterday that Arlo Guthrie is touring to benefit Katrina victims. Will he be selling any ringtones to help raise money? I don't think that "Brownie you're doing a heck of a job" would be the best choice, but clips of...
Eric Gundersen

Oct 15, 2005

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DCPak.org Launched for South Asia Earthquake Response

This morning we launched www.dcpak.org, just a week following the devastating earthquake in South Asia that has left upwards of 40,00 people dead in Pakistan. We built the site for the local Washington DC based NGO, ImPak, to help keep people...

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