Heather Leson, Melanie Gorka and David Black

February 26, 2011 Podcamp Toronto

Crisis Commons is a global network of

volunteers who use creative problem solving

and open technologies to help people and

communities in times and places of crisis.

Crisis Commons members organize response

events called CrisisCamps.

Applied Social Media

Code, test tools, translate, map, wiki, Twitter, Facebook, communicate, collaborate, plan, coordinate, iterate, brainstorm, research, analyze, report, broker relationships, create content, videos, pictures, slideshare, and document

90 days

8 countries

50 events

+2000 volunteers

CrisisCamp Paris

CrisisCamp Argentina

CrisisCamp Bogota

Team Canada

Sahana Foundation

Ushahidi, Swift River and Crowdmap

OpenStreetMap

Frontline SMS

Crisismappers

Random Hacks of Kindness

Humanity Road

Geeks without Bounds

HFOSS and more

Random Hacks of Kindness 1.0

June 2010 - 5 countries

500 volunteers

RhoK Sydney, Australia

Nairobi to Montreal via Sydney and London

Ovoo + Skype + Twitter + IRC +

Wiki + Email

= 2 hours

CrisisCamp Pakistan

August – September 2010

What if you read a text message (SMS) and could

help your neighbour?

+ Text message + short code

+ Report

+ Read, search, document and categorize

+ Map

Mobile phones are global.

Pakreport.org

CrisisCamp London (UK) for Pakistan Floods

Global CrisisCamp Marathon

September 4 – 5, 2010

24 hours

CrisisCamps:

Toronto Silicon Valley Sydney Bangkok London

Dozens of virtual volunteers collaborating with the

CrisisMappers , Sahana, OpenStreetMap and other

teams.

CrisisCamp Sydney

Random Hacks of Kindness 2.0

(RHoK)

December 2010

10 countries, 21 cities

1000 volunteers

RHoK Chicago

RHoK Toronto /Open Data Hackathon with CrisisCamp Toronto

So what does it all mean?

4 days

995 reports (verified and mapped)

82,121 unique visitors

From 65 countries

100s of local volunteers

Global volunteers and observers

Heather@textontechs.com

Melanie.gorka@gmail.com

rdavidblack@gmail.com

@crisiscampto

@crisiscamp

@crisiscommons

Crisiscommons.org

Photos by:

heatherleson, Brian Chick, Cynthia Gould, Mariella,

Ratzilla, Tolmie Macrae, Deborah Shaddon, Spike,

Luis Aguilar