Hi Daniel, Pamela and the Others, This is Nama from Kathmandu Living Labs. I will be happy to jump in a Skype call along with Nirab and Punit if that is easier than emails. I am namabudhathoki in Skype.
Nama On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Luis Hernando Aguilar < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Punit (et ali) > Thanks a lot for your message. I´m CC to Daniel, Pamela and the other > coordinators who will find so useful your learned lessons > > Ecuador team: Punit was in charge of the Nepal deployment. Please find > attached his advices and recomendations that for sure will be useful for > all of us here. > > Per, thanks a lot!!! I´m feeling like an uncle of SBTF and is great to see > how you guys are supporting all this! Thanks > > Mil gracias > Luis > > > > 2016-04-19 4:59 GMT-05:00 Punit Jajodia <[email protected]>: > >> Hi all, >> >> I don't know any Spanish but I'd like to chip in with some lessons from >> my experience. I worked as volunteer co-ordinator during the April >> earthquake in Nepal, supporting the amazing work Kathmandu Living Labs was >> doing with quakemap.org and quakerelief.info. >> >> 1. First task is to get enough reports on the system for it to be usable. >> Lots of facebook groups, chats and twitter statuses are a rich source of >> information but they still need to be mapped. >> >> One team of volunteers need to immediately start taking these reports >> from social media and putting them on the Ushahidi deployment. Once the >> number of reports crosses 500, the media, public and responders will start >> taking the effort seriously and you'll have reports coming in >> automatically. Make sure you include the source (link to twitter feed, >> facebook status, news item etc.) in the description field so that we can >> remove duplicate reports when the dust settles down a bit. >> >> 2. Setup a process, everyone doing everything isn't a great idea. Divide >> the volunteers into teams that do only one specific work. I've attached a >> presentation that outlines the team division and the workflow that we >> created during the April earthquake.If needed, we can arrange a Skype call >> so that I can explain the workflow to the team. >> >> 3. When a report appears on the deployment and multiple responders engage >> their resources, it is a loss of valuable time. Explain clearly to the >> responders that they need to communicate with the volunteer team. If they >> are responding to a report, they should add a comment on the report that >> they are taking care of it e.g if the Red Cross is sending medical supplies >> to a certain place based on information from a report, they should add the >> sentence "Red Cross is sending a team in this location" as a comment to the >> report. >> >> If they face any problems while responding, they should add another >> comment. If a report is closed(either because the casualties couldn't be >> saved or relief was provided), they should again add another comment to the >> report giving this update. >> >> Please check this report http://quakemap.org/reports/view/2174 as an >> example of how comments can be useful. >> >> 4. A dedicated team of volunteers should read the comments and update the >> report status. They should also add any updates they might have based on >> their verification as comments. We had added a field called "Actionable" to >> every report that would specify whether the report was "actionable", >> "non-actionable", "urgent" or "closed". The team of "comment approvers" >> would read the comments coming in and change this "actionable" status so >> that people could filter out "non-actionable" and "closed" reports. This >> was very useful in the later days because we knew exactly which reports >> didn't need to be acted upon. >> >> 5. It is very tempting to try to give user ids to every organization and >> ask them to update the reports themselves, but from our experience, this >> doesn't work. All organizations will be too busy focusing on relief efforts >> so asking them to add comments and having a dedicated team of volunteers >> reading these comments and updating the report status is the right way to >> go. >> >> 6. Explain to people how to use the CSV export feature to allow people to >> download the reports in excel format. This is very useful when working with >> less tech savvy organizations and for printing out the reports for offline >> access. >> >> Feel free to reply with any questions or feedback. >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Nirab Pudasaini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> KLL might be able to help with their experience of quakemap deployment >>> during Nepal earthquake. CC ed in this email is Punit Jajodia who was >>> heavily involved with quakemap. I will let him reply. >>> >>> Regards >>> Nirab >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Tasauf A Baki Billah < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: "Standby Task Force" <[email protected]> >>>> Date: Apr 19, 2016 2:07 PM >>>> Subject: Ecuador EQ - assisting with Ushahidi platform >>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: >>>> >>>> As you know, the SBTF has engaged in information gathering on the >>>> Ecuador Earthquake. >>>> >>>> In addition, we have a request from a volunteer group sitting in Quito >>>> running a crowdmap. >>>> https://mapa.desastre.ec >>>> >>>> They need a hand for coordination of volunteers; Assigning tasks and >>>> assisting with the platform. >>>> >>>> The working language is Spanish. You may be able to help - or you may >>>> forward this to someone who have experience with Ushahidi & crowdmap >>>> deployments? >>>> >>>> Connect with me: <[email protected]> or Luis < >>>> [email protected]> if you can contribute? >>>> >>>> Best regards >>>> >>>> Per >>>> >>>> Visit Standby Task Force at: >>>> http://standbytaskforce.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network >>>> >>>> >>>> To control which emails you receive on Standby Task Force, click here >>>> <http://standbytaskforce.ning.com/profiles/profile/emailSettings?xg_source=msg_mes_network> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Punit Jajodia >> >> Co-founder >> >> M: *+977-9808650191 <%2B977-9808650191>* >> >> parewalabs.com >> >> <https://twitter.com/parewalabs> >> <https://linkedin.com/company/parewa-labs> >> ᐧ >> > > > > -- > > > *Luis Hernando AGUILAR RAMIREZ*Knowledge Management Expert > Humanitarian Information Manager > > LinkedIn > Facebook > Twitter > Skype > Phone/WhatsApp > Email > > https://co.linkedin.com/in/luishernando > http://Facebook.com/luish > @luishernando > qu1x0t3 > +57-3013936590 > [email protected] > _________________________________________ > La sonrisa cuesta menos que la electricidad y da más <b>luz</b> > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Nama R. 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