Safecast talk at the New Context Conference 2011 in Tokyo Japan by Pieter Franken

2. March 11, 2011

3. T=0
No Geiger Counters !
No Data !
No Money !
No Nothing !

4. After 3 months on
TBS Prime time News

6. T+3 months:
10 Geiger Counters
500,000 Measurements
$36,000 Funding
50 volunteers worldwide
SAFECAST.org
Keio University partnered

7. maps.safecast.org

8. radiation.yahoo.co.jp

11. Ars Electronica 2011

12. T+6 months:
25 Geiger Counters
100 Fixed sensors
1,000,000 Measurements
150 volunteers worldwide
NEW ! SAFECAST.org
5 Major Universities partnered
3 Companies partnered
Geiger Art !

15. How did that break
through happen?

16. Experience DIY
Action
Development

17. More More
More
More
More
More
More
More

19. Whoa
T-

21. Problem:
Lack of information

22. Solution:
Get information,
give it to people

23. Problem:
Information doesn’t
exist

24. Solution:
Distribute devices to
collect data to create
information

25. Problem:
Very few devices exist

26. Solution:
Create devices, make
them mobile, get
people, collect data, map
it
And, eh, do it fast !

39. The first SAFECAST
drive happened one
month after 3.11
... the entire system was
developed and build in
SIX days ...
... by people I had never
met before

40. T+12? months:
3.11.2012 - JAPAN
500 Geiger Counters
1000 Fixed Sensors
4,000,000 Measurements

41. SAFECAST
THE
PLANET

44. SAFECAST.ORG
@SafecastDotOrg
@SafecastJapan
www.tokyohackerspace.org