Hello here is the promised update from the for the Fort McMurray fires. Summary: the canadian governments haven't asked for crisismapping yet. Step by step.
CANVOST - this is a group building partnerships and lines of communications between digital contributors and Canadian government officials. The goal is to be a Canadian Volunteer network like our allies in the US (VOADs and VOSTs) There are details in the note on how to join this mailing list. I am happy to introduce anyone. Given that I live in Qatar it would be best if someone in Canada is the liaison. Thanks Heather ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "David Black" <da...@crisiscommons.org> Date: 7 May 2016 04:01 Subject: CanVOST update for Friday To: <coret...@standbytaskforce.com>, <t...@humanityroad.org>, "patrice cloutier" <patricecloutiermc...@gmail.com>, "Heather Leson" < heatherle...@gmail.com>, <rbhar...@cisco.com>, "Christiaan Adams" < csad...@google.com> Cc: Considering that our current mandate from AEMA is fairly limited (but important) to Social Media monitoring, message amplification, correcting misinformation etc. as outlined previously, we do not see an immediate need for mapping and other tasks. This is directly related to the official mandate/needs from the AEMA. Of course, we are all free to carry on doing the work we do to aid citizens directly and I encourage it. This is CanVOST's first direct engagement with an official agency here and they have limited the scope of our contribution to essentially the activities that we exercised with them last year. Though we know that with all our partners such as yourselves we could bring more to the table, we are happy to complete the mandate and satisfy our larger goals of building the trust relationships with government, demonstrating the value of our collective contributions, and refining our activation and workflow processes. That being said, as the situation evolves we are ready to step things up if AEMA comes back with new requests and a wider scope of work. We will be reaching out to the PIO's in various EOC's tomorrow to better our integration with current operations and refine the products that we supply. CanVOST has organized it's work schedule, will reach out to other VOST's, and if anyone from your organizations want to help out with the tasks at hand for a few hours Patrice would be happy to welcome you on board. Just contact him directly. patricecloutiermc...@gmail.com I will message again if things change. Please contact us if you have any questions or feedback and thank you for all the support. David
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