A couple of questions, perhaps to catalyze more thinking along these lines:
1. What do you consider to be HOT's top 2 or 3 unique abilities (relative to other organizations)? 2. Can anyone imagine or envision an "ideal" development project (even hypothetically) for which HOT would be particularly. -Walter On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send HOT mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of HOT digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: HOT's Mission (Mikel Maron) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:13:01 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mikel Maron <[email protected]> > To: Kate Chapman <[email protected]>, hot <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT's Mission > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I'm going to present a different point of view on this question. > > > > First, I'm totally philosophically aligned with what I've heard so far. The > lines between "disaster" and "development" are somewhat arbitrary, and the > international organizational structures do reflect this, to the detriment of > response. Following a sudden onset disaster, when is a disaster officially > "over", and how have the problems changed? Pre-disaster, how can communities > be made more resilient to future crisis? A more developed country would > usually have a better response to disaster (though I'm not sure, ex. > Hurricane Katrina and the panic over a little quake in DC). Knowing when a > disaster starts is also a decision in many cases, such as famines [ > http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/2011/08/activation-in-somalia/]. > > OSM has a unique ability to bridge these divisions ... open data persists > throughout all stages of a crisis, and to a great extent, the activity in > similar. > > That said, disaster response does have unique characteristics. The urgency > of the situation, the particular kinds of things that need mapping, the > activities that need maps ... this is the raison d'etre of HOT, and it's > very complicated. The discussions on what counts as an "activation" address > these issues. > > > I promised a different point of view, and haven't really given that so far. > > My concern is very practical, for HOT as an organization taking on > projects. OSM and HOT as a community, I see as most definitely taking part > in "development" efforts. The question in my mind is how HOT as an > organization would take on funded development projects. What criteria do we > apply to judge a project as being useful to HOT's mission? The projects HOT > has been involved in so far are more clearly in post-disaster recovery (in > Haiti, in organizational support to COSMHA) and in disaster risk reduction > (Indonesia). > > "Development" as a field encompasses so many different kinds of things. > Infrastructure development, health, governance ... every sector you can > think of. As Lisa Sweeney mentioned "education can be considered part of > development". The types of projects this opens up is so intensely varied, > and while this is an opportunity, it is also a concern. > > HOT needs to be able to respond. How that balances with ongoing projects is > already a question. How do we judge what kinds of things are appropriate, > and how do we ensure that HOT as an organization and community is not > overwhelmed by new activities. I don't have any answers, but only think we > need to carefully think about the practical impacts that a clearly expanded > mission creates. > > -Mikel > > > > > == Mikel Maron == > +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > > >________________________________ > >From: Kate Chapman <[email protected]> > >To: hot <[email protected]> > >Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:37 AM > >Subject: [HOT] HOT's Mission > > > >Hey All, > > > >So when we incorporated HOT as an official entity the mission > >statement was "Using OpenStreetMap for Disaster Response and Economic > >Development." > > > >We've also recently talked about the difference between activations > >and projects as well.? Meaning that activations are in response to an > >event and projects are longer term work in preparedness or rebuilding > >for examples.? (Indonesia and Haiti being examples of this) > > > >Sometimes other projects are suggested more in the realm of > >development projects.? I don't think there is an argument that having > >better maps in developing areas can help people, but is this within > >the scope of HOT?? Is it within the realm of what HOT wants to do or > >is that "mission creep"? > > > >Some of us on the board have discussed this, but really it is > >something that should come from the HOT membership > and community. > > > >Anyway, we are interested in obtaining some feedback and having a > >discussion through the mailing list.? I will also put it on the agenda > >for the next HOT chat. > > > >Best, > > > >-Kate > > > >_______________________________________________ > >HOT mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/attachments/20110929/9910ff4e/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > End of HOT Digest, Vol 19, Issue 29 > *********************************** >
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