Talk given to the Internet of Things NYC meetup on 23rd February 2012. http://www.meetup.com/iotnewyork/events/48336912/

1. Internet of Things and Crisis Data
Sara-Jayne Farmer
Standby Task Force, Hunchworks, etc.

2. Crisis data is/was annoying
• Twitter
• Facebook
• SMS
• Phones GAP Decisions
• Photos
• News
• Sneakernet
Overworked
Field People

3. The vision:
effective crisis information ecosystems

4. A more detailed vision
All data
sources
Collect Data
Plan data Collate Data
gathering
Observe
Act
Disseminate Analyse
Data Data
Decide Orient

5. Crisismapping – Jan 2010: Earthquake
• Mappers create maps from satellite images, tourist maps, locals etc
• Person in Haiti sends SMS to 3441
• Message goes to CrowdFlower
• Mappers translate and geolocate message
• Mappers add message to Ushahidi display
• Message gets to responders, public, aunts, Sahana etc.

6. Crisismapping – Mid 2010: floods

7. Crisismapping Early 2011: radiation

8. Crisismapping Late 2011: migration

9. Crisismapping Early 2012: cold

10. IOT and Crisis Data
• Design for crises
– Think about crisis applications when you build tech
• Think about what’s needed
– What needs to be sensed
– How to adapt existing tech
• Connect with the users
– Crisismappers
– Grassroots mappers
– Random Hacks of Kindness (RHOK)

11. Big Development Data: Early 2011

12. What the Information Gaps did

13. BDD 2010: New Data Sources
+ YOU!

14. BDD 2011: Proofs of Principle

15. BDD 2012: Collation

16. IOT and Big Development Data
• Think about what’s needed
– water sensors, crop sensors, etc
• Connect with the users, via
– Data Without Borders
– Random Hacks of Kindness (again)

17. Next?
• Effective crisis information ecosystem
– Established data gathering technologies (mostly)
– Cooperation as standard
– Open data systems = crisis data systems
– We’ve thought about (almost) everything