Internet of Things and Crisis Data

Sara-Jayne FarmerStandby Task Force, Hunchworks, etc.

Crisis data is/was annoying

• Twitter• Facebook• SMS• Phones• Photos• News• Sneakernet

DecisionsGAP

Overworked Field People

The vision: effective crisis information ecosystems

Observe

A more detailed vision

Collect Data

Disseminate Data

Collate DataPlan data gathering

Analyse Data

Decide

Act

Orient

All data sources

Crisismapping – Jan 2010: Earthquake

• Mappers create maps from satellite images, tourist maps, locals etc

• Person in Haiti sends SMS to 3441

• Message goes to CrowdFlower

• Mappers translate and geolocate message

• Mappers add message to Ushahidi display

• Message gets to responders, public, aunts, Sahana etc.

Crisismapping – Mid 2010: floods

Crisismapping Early 2011: radiation

Crisismapping Late 2011: migration

Crisismapping Early 2012: cold

IOT and Crisis Data

• Design for crises– Think about crisis applications when you build tech

• Think about what’s needed– What needs to be sensed– How to adapt existing tech

• Connect with the users– Crisismappers– Grassroots mappers– Random Hacks of Kindness (RHOK)

Big Development Data: Early 2011

What the Information Gaps did

BDD 2010: New Data Sources

+ YOU!

BDD 2011: Proofs of Principle

BDD 2012: Collation

IOT and Big Development Data

• Think about what’s needed– water sensors, crop sensors, etc

• Connect with the users, via– Data Without Borders– Random Hacks of Kindness (again)

Next?

• Effective crisis information ecosystem– Established data gathering technologies (mostly)– Cooperation as standard– Open data systems = crisis data systems– We’ve thought about (almost) everything