Honshu Quake

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About the Effort CrisisCommons, along with our friends in the greater volunteer technology community, continue to “stand at the ready” to provide volunteers with an ability to contribute to requests made by crisis response agencies in support response and recovery efforts of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. To date, 225 volunteers have signed up to contribute to this wiki project and to be offered to other volunteer technology projects like the Japan Crisis Map and other crowd sourced initiatives. CrisisCommons seeks to support crisis response organizations and their requests for data feeds and sources. This is an all volunteer effort and this wiki continues to be revised each hour. Been working on the Japan Data Profile? --> Complete our survey! Tell us how to do this better! <--

Join Us If you are an individual and would like to be listed to volunteer if there is a need, please sign up here If you are an organization and want to volunteer a team or specific expertise, please sign up here here If you are a crisis response organization supporting response and recovery efforts in Japan and need assistance from technology volunteers, please let us know here If you want to Join our Skype chat room you can learn more and click the link to join here. Project Spotlight: Gathering Common Operational Datasets Sign up so we can be sure to thank you Ask the forum moderator on Skype, "What is the priority of the day?" (listed under Projects on the right here -->) for contribution of data sets to Sendai Data Profile and the Japan Data Profile Search for data feeds under the categories of outlined areas. We especially have interest in Japanese data feeds. Recommended that you pick one area to focus your efforts. Let the folks in the Skype chat know when you arrive, what areas you will be editing and when you leave. If you cannot edit a wiki, there are people on the Skype who can add that information to the wiki for you. If you have a recommendation or suggestion of how to do this better let us know and also please add to our Survey questions here. If you have a great idea and would like to work on it in the future let us know and please also please add to our Survey questions here. Wiki 101 How to edit a Wiki Formatting a Wiki General topics on navigating and editing a Wiki Video How-To Stuck? Ask an Expert @filbertkm or @justin_tung If either are not available, contact @willowbloo - on EST

Open Data Japan Data Profile - Join the effort to collect data feeds. This project was initially to support UN OCHA request. But as they are sending limited engagement to Japan, at Japan's request. We will continue this collection as a volunteer effort to mature the collection of Common Operational Datasets to provide input and recommendations back the UN as well as capture lessons learned from this task. Here is how you can get started COD_101 Our current Focus: Providing information about communications infrastructure in the affected region Cleaning up the wiki, assessing information gaps Doing QA pass on the wiki in preparation for translation to Japanese. User Generated Crisis Data User-generated crisis content, data and/or visualizations are often created during crisis events by the public (including technology volunteers). Below is a listing of public sites where information and content is searched for or derived by the public. Information may not be validated or be prototype in nature. Most of these listings are not connected to local emergency response authorities. CrisisCommons & GISCorps Japan Tohoku Earthquake Data Layers Japan Ushahidi Crisis Map (In Japanese) Radiation Map (In Russian) RDTN.org - Radiation Report in Japan via PDX (In English) Open Heat Map OpenStreetMap crisis map resources and mapping coordination info University of Colorado at Boulder: Tweak the Tweet Facebook Status Updates Earthquake TimeMap Mashup Power Cut Off Map Google Person Finder Power Map (we think) & Blog on Color Layers Emergency Water and Food Distribution can also be found here for data entry [[1]] GIS/Maps Japan GIS/Maps Open Imagery Imagery Sources NGOs/Foundations Foundation Center RSS Feed of Japan Relief Grants List of NGOs Operating in Japan via Interaction Situational Reports (SitReps) Relief Web - United Nations World Health Organization More see Japan SitReps

Reporting, Requests, and Contact See below for after action report steps and additional requests.

After Action Report

• Volunteer Survey - by March 16, 2011
• Hotwash to be conducted by April 15, 2011
• Missing Persons Japan
• Skype Chat Feed Archive (TBD) - May 1, 2011
• Community Report for Input - May 1, 2011

Data Storage/Infrastructure Requests

Public File List

• For file transfer we have created a public Dropbox. If you have a Dropbox account already, click here to share files. If you DO NOT have a Dropbox account, you will need to create one (it's free) using this link.
• Note: All files shared will be publicly available.
• Request for Development/Production Space: Through a partnership with Oregon State University's Open Source Labs, there is server space available for affiliated response projects supporting local authorities and humanitarian relief organizations. To request infrastructure support, email deborah@crisiscommons.org
• Request for link here for Public Files.
• Request for file category links to follow next lines - Request for suggested categories? (communication, media, transportation, Food& Water, Rescue, Relief, etc)

• Eddie is heading this File Project SkypeID eddie_adventure or better yet Join Skype Chat for access and collaboration

If you need to host files rather than transfer them, please see Japan Geospatial Data Sharing.

Contact

• Contact: Heather Blanchard, 703-593-3823, heather@crisiscommons.org, SkypeID/Twitter: poplifegirl

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