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EMERGENCY INFORMATION SERVICES (EIS)
Eduardo JezierskiEngineering, [email protected]: eduardojezierski@edjez
With tech support of…
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INFORMATION TO SAVE LIVES
• EIS is a free information service for populations affected by disasters
• To help the people recover by giving
them access to information that will enable them to make decisions
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INFORMATION TO SAVE LIVES • What kind of information?
– Fast, practical and verified information– Always in local languages
• What is the scale of the disaster?• Which areas have been affected?• Is safe to move to another area?• Are transportation links/infrastructure damaged?• Where should people seek refuge?• Where are the food distribution points?• Where are people find clean water?• What medical facilities are available and where?• What do people do if they have missing relatives?
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THE EIS SYSTEM
Individual Messages
RSS (geo, tags)Email
Digest summaries
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What can survivors do with EIS?
• Subscribe by texting a local number
• Receive free, location-specific SMS alerts and information
• Text information into the system
• People outside the disaster zone can add loved ones’ numbers
• Can unsubscribe at any time
• Information received in local languages and dialects
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What can relief responders do?
• Monitor raw information from government, local media, aid groups and survivors
• Set up filters (by keywords, tags, topics, locations or time)
• Crowdsource the Diaspora (translate, map, tag as needed)
– As we did in Haiti
• Share own content via RSS, email and SMS
– SMS alerts, email alerts, email Digests daily/weekly
• Manage own collaborative work spaces (e.g. around field assessments submitted by SMS)
• Map, tag, prioritise, aggregate and annotate raw
information locally or remotely
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And local journalists?
• All of the above, plus…
• Receive EIS bulletins by SMS, email or RSS (for repackaging or straight dissemination to local audiences)
• Two-way radio bulletins
• Radio broadcast support through digests
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Key Learnings from Indonesia & Haiti
• Telco Preparedness
• Interoperability & Information Flow
• Collaboration & Reliable flow of needs from the ground
• Governance and Decision Making
• Tech capacity on the ground
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Eric Rasmussen and Nico di Tada, partners from InSTEDD
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Help and information requests
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Empowering vulnerable populations with information
Relevance: Geographic, demographic, timelinessDialogue: Keep a 2-way channel open
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How does the system work for the TRF team?
• Intelligent processing of multiple information streams
• Complete workflow from writing and translation through editing and publishing
• Send SMS alerts to specific groups and locations
– As targeted as desired: geo, category of message, profession
– Limited by our assessment of the message content
• Send longer information by email and RSS
• Local or global workflows (or combination of both)
• Manage external working groups and assign permissions
• Translate interface into any language
• Flexible configurations for different communications conditions
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Home page for EIS Haiti~100.000 items as of 28 February 2010
12 feed sources
~25,000 subscribers
Sending ~80,000+ messages a day
~100.000 items as of 28 February 2010
12 feed sources
~25,000 subscribers
Sending ~80,000+ messages a day
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Power of AlgorithmsSuggest from learnt behaviorsAccelerate sifting through data
Feature Extraction, Classification, Clustering
Wisdom of the Crowds
Large base of data & workHyperlocal knowledgeStrength in numbers
Instinct of the ExpertsCross-sector contributions of
specialized knowledge, Curation of a ‘live news’
Instinct of the ExpertsCross-sector contributions of
specialized knowledge, Curation of a ‘live news’
Priorit
izeTeachTeach
Suggest
Prioritize
Annotate
Ground-truth
Crowds + Experts + Algorithms
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Translation of a broadcast message…
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Experts using information to create an operational picture
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Machine, know thy place…Design precept: machines suggest, humans commit
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Beyond EIS & looking at the ecosystemHamish, MapAction – source of EIS entrapment localization requests
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Anastasia Moloney describing EIS at the UN Humanitarian Forum