Pakistan/2010 Floods/Tasks

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Background Information on Pakistan/2010 Floods

Urgent Tasks That Anyone Can Do

Back to main pak page: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Pakistan/2010_Floods

  • Open Street Map - CONTINUOUS - Mapping roads, towns etc in the Swat & Kabul river valley lowland areas, naming towns/villages, marking towns/villages affected by the floods.
  • Ushahidi data entry - CONTINUOUS - verify/translate data input
    • Webpage for this is http://pakreport.crowdflower.com
    • Help available at Tools/Crowdflower
    • Can't find a location? Multiple locations come up? Check out from PakReport.org Crowdflower for a bunch of useful resouces listed: http://groups.google.com/group/PakReport-volunteers/web/mapping-links. Here you will find spreadsheets with lists of cities and lat and long. There are at least 4 different spreadsheets with data of different levels of authorship and authentication, so keep looking!
    • Use getlatlon.com to get latitude/longitude information, it's nice.
    • Helpful blogpost here!
    • Need help with a location name? Try tweeting the question including the handle @sanasaleem or @farhanmasood or @Ali_Abbas_Zaidi or @hushamahmed @DrAwab


  • TweakTheTweet - CONTINUOUS - Convert pkfloods tweets into Ushahidi/Sahana-readable format
    • Help promote Tweak the Tweet for the Pakistan Floods
    • TweakTheTweet are also collecting records from Tweak the Tweet (TtT) tweets from #pakistan #pkfloods via this Google Spreadsheet to make it easier to match offers of help with those with needs
    • Help available at Tools/TweakTheTweet
  • Publicise hashtag #pkfloods and SMS short code 3441 FL to people in Pakistan, govt agencies and NGOs. “Text FL and your observations about the disaster and your location so we can put this on a map.”

Translation (Urdu / Pashtu) Tasks

  • Translating OpenStreetMap instruction: OSM needs help with translating the OpenStreetMap interface, as well as Potlatch and OpenLayers, via translatewiki.net. If anyone needs help getting going on translatewiki, KatieFilbert can help. JOSM can be translated via launchpad. Walking papers can also be translated: paperwalking. OSM still needs help with Haitian Kreyol, as well as Urdu and many other languages. Having OSM in one's native language obviously will make it much easier for people to use.
  • Transcribe BBC lifeline content from BBC lifeline radio for use in Sahana/Ushahidi
    • see Jeannie Stamburger

Technical Tasks

  • Create Facebook data feed -POSSIBLE SOLUTION BELOW-
    • Get comments from pkfloods facebook group exported vis rss so it can be imported into Ushahidi. This is currently not possible in Facebook groups so Simon Hilton (simon.hilton@gmail.com) has emailed Facebook to see if this can be done.
    • Silicon Valley has worked out two possible solutions: we can export to RSS using this Python script, but also can't we just have wall posts be sent out as an email and then feed the email into Ushahidi? What is better?
    • GeorgeChamales from Ushahidi/ CC SiliconValley has a) said that this is a very good thing for Ushahidi and suggested using the Facebook API for this feed - he's offering support for anyone who wants to pick up this task.
  • ReliefOversight Drupal project - team doing this; David White @dwrudy (Boston) leading, linked to London camp. We got several volunteers for Drupal coding, including people who responded to an IT4Communities call (thanks to Anne Stafford). We have two Drupal projects at the moment: ReliefOVersight’s pkfloods donation-tracking site and CDAC; ReliefWeb is also going Drupal and looking at apps but that will probably be later this year.

Information Tasks

  • Find datafeeds for Sahana
    • Sahana needs a quality data feed - can anyone out there comment on how to do this?
    • Tell Kate Starbird/ Gavin Treadgold
  • Inform people affected by floods and other volunteers
  • Help populate http://pakistan.wikia.com/wiki/Floods_2010_Resources
    • Broadcast: Which tools are up and running and how people can help with them
    • Broadcast: Which information sources and channels are up and running and how people can help
  • Check list of pkfloods active groups
    • Check Pakistan/2010 Floods/groups - have we missed anyone? Extraordinaries? Star-tides? Camps we haven't listed? Anyone else you can think of?
  • Check list of pkfloods active NGOs
    • Check CrisisWiki list of NGOs active in Pakistan Floods against UN-published lists
    • Help available at Tools/CrisisWiki

Coordination Tasks

  • Check out ACTED work on pkfloods
  • Check language needs
    • Check with each tool provider, e.g. does OSM/Ushahidi/Sahana etc need instructions translating into Urdu and/or local Pashtu?
  • Organise translators and translation tasks
    • (see US coordinator from Haiti?)
  • Connect with DfID

On the Ground (i.e. in Pakistan) Tasks

  • mapping tasks in Sukkur/ Sindh
    • (see Fawad Hussein via Shoaib Burq)
  • Other UN? tasks
    • volunteers needed to check & filter emails (office space & connectivity available)
    • data entry as many reports are coming in and consolidation is needed (office space & connectivity available)

Tasks that need more information adding

  • Populate Hack4Pak Crisis Apps site
    •  : put on hold until Matt McNabb has this site up and running.


Suggested Tasks

Far-future Tasks

  • Task management application
  • Source code repository

Temporary Project Tracking: Camp Task Coordination

A bunch of camps are joining CrisisCamp London and Cambridge, i.e. Silicon Valley, Toronto, Australia. See Pakistan 2010 Floods page for upcoming camps

Spreadsheet for camp coordination/tracking: Pakistan Tasks


Rejected / Completed Tasks

Rejected and Completed Tasks

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