Hi Heather,
The Central Africa Republic and South Sudan Activations initiated by Severin in
2013 are the longest but with less intensity then the West Africa outbreak.
These are what Sev calls the orphan activations, those that we forget too
often, with less media coverage. Thanks to Severin for supporting in uneasy
context, developping interconnections with humanitarian organizations in the
field, experimenting with routing tasks on the Task Manager.
I dont have statistics for South Sudan and CAR. This is something I promized to
Severin and did not have time to do with this so intense year volunteering for
the Ebola outbreak. For the West Africa Ebola outbreak, we are nearly at 16
millions objects edited. This compares with 4.5 million objects for the Haiyan
Cyclone in Philppines (2014) and 1.6 millions objects in Haiti (2010).
What is particular with the this Ebola activation is the extent of the mapping
(Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone largely covered). MSF has setup from the
beginning, march 24, a workflow where we can work closely with CartONG and MSF
to support tracking the people at risk of infection. This response grew up
with Red Cross plus the various Imagery providers sharing images. It was at
the same time a very challenging and emotional mission for the leaders / core
support group volunteering for this mission, seing all the medias updates that
show the epidemy progressing and people isolated in tents as we covered more
and more areas to support rapidly the thousand of Red Cross and MSF field teams
doing case tracing and from august supporting the United Nations Mission for
Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER). At the same time this were very interesting
challenges intensifying the collaboration with the various organizations and
the UNMEER. OSM is the deFacto basemap of this mission with a multitude of
products and visualizations based on OSM.
Many others, I am sure, share this mixed emotions about such a mission. Like we
said this week discussing on the Skype coordination group for the Ebola with
other UNMEER participants, at this point we should be both optimistic -
realistic. This is not time to stop helping for the relief of populations, the
to provide better sanitary conditions and to contribute to the economic
recovery of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Cheers for all of the OSM community people who remotely contributed from
internet. And cheers to MSF, Red Cross, CartON, UNMEER and all the humanitarian
in the field. Many of them we are in contact and want to say we are still with
them.
Pierre
De : Heather Leson <[email protected]>
À : Pierre Béland <[email protected]>
Cc : HOT Openstreetmap <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : Lundi 23 mars 2015 12h15
Objet : Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola
response
Thanks for this note Pierre. It is my understanding that this is the longest
activation that HOT has done?
I truly appreciate all the leadership and efforts of the global community,
partners and supporters.
Heather
Heather Leson
[email protected]
Twitter: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Pierre Béland <[email protected]> wrote:
March 22 2014, we started to monitor this humanitarian response. Thanks to all
of those who contributed, who are still supporting the humanitarians in the
field.
As discussed this week with the humanitarian organizations and UN Agencies on
our skype coordination group, we should be both optimistic with the progress in
reduction of cases and realistic in the efforts to maintain to control this
epidemic and help the West Africa countries the most affected to build better
sanitation conditions and restart the economies severly affected by the last
year epidemic.
See the twitter to thanks all the OSM contributors.
https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/579626398857502720
regard
Pierre
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