The Wilson Center Commons Lab just released the workshop report for Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management, explores the opportunities as well as the research and policy challenges of mass collaboration and social media for disaster management.
Press Release: http://bit.ly/1eAbsJX Free PDF Report: http://bit.ly/17nEubU It also can be found here: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/connecting-grassroots-to-government-for-disaster-management-workshop-summary So many people to thank for their contributions and feedback to workshop and summary report. In addition to the Crisis Mapping, HOT, and CrisisCommons communities, we would like to thank: The Wilson Center is thankful for the collaboration and support of our co-hosts: - the National Association of Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation; - the International Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management - the University ofColorado, Boulder’s Project EPIC; and - NetHope. The Wilson Center also greatly appreciates the generous co-sponsorship of Esri, which is an industry leader in geographic information systems. We also would like to thank TechChange, which provides scalable and interactive technology training for social change. The staff of TechChange provided in-kind social media support for two panel sessions through a customized platform that they had developed to ingest comments and monitorsocial media feeds, engaging both their students and people globally in 30 countries for real-time Q&A with the panelists and in-person participants. The keynote sessions were “Agency Vision and Decision-Maker Needs” on September 13 ( http://techchange.org/ live-events/wilson-center-agency-vision-and-decision-maker-needs/), and “Connecting Grassroots to Government through Open Innovation” ( http://techchange.org/live-events/ wilson-center-connecting-grassroots-to-government-through-open-innovation/) on September 14, 2012. The Wilson Center acknowledges and greatly appreciates the work of the steering committee that helped to design this workshop, including: - John Crowley, Public Policy Scholar for the Commons Lab and Research Coordinator for the Crisis Dynamics Program, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. - John Bwarie, Strategy and Communications Officer for the Science Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) Project, Natural Hazards Mission Area, U.S. Geological Survey; - Michael Goodchild,Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara; -Gisli Olafsson, Emergency Response Director, NetHope; - Leysia Palen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder; - Eric Rasmussen, Vice President, AccessAgility, and Managing Director, Infinitum Humanitarian Systems; - Christopher Strager, Director of the National Weather Service, Eastern Region, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration; - Bartel Van de Walle, President, International Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), and Associate Professor of Information Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University. All generously gave of their time and expertise, providing ideas and feedback on the agenda, and identifying and inviting speakersand attendees. Committee members also served as moderators for many of the sessions. The Wilson Center would like to thank the moderators and panelists who presented material to initiate the discussion and orient attendees for each session. In addition, the workshop would not have been as interesting or as productive without the important contributions of the 95 people who attended the event in person, as well as the 707 unique visitors who participated in the event via live webcast from 30 countries, including the United States, Venezuela, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Kenya, and Taiwan. Many of these folks and others also offered their ideas and questions via email and social media, generating more than 13,000 tweets using the hashtag #dg2g. Several of the participating organizations also provided posters and demonstrations to showcase recent research, experimentation, and pilot projects. Lastly, Zachary Bastian, Eric Rasmussen, Rebecca Goolsby, Gisli Olafsson, and A. Riley Eller wrote white papers and a presentation to provide context and starting points for the session discussions. A summary of the social media engagement for the workshop also was compiled. These are included in the appendixes C through H.
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