Deployed Devices call
If you could put anything at all onto devices shipped into the field during disaster response, and they could stay through recovery, what would you put on them? What about a few million devices being shipped into developing areas? These are the questions we asked of ourselves and others in light of Microsoft’s Disaster response ...
Digital Humanitarian Scaling Call
There’s an affiliations group called Digital Humanitarian Network which GWOB (and some other great groups) are a part of. The group is growing steadily, and defining itself as it goes. We played through a scenario together at ICCM 2012, and are looking forward to further interaction with people in the future. Below follow the notes ...
Welcoming the January 2013 Accelerator Teams!
6 months of mentorship. There is a disconnect between technologists with the skills to effect humanitarian change and the organizations with the resources, networks, and know-how to put those changes into effect. This is where we come in. Geeks Without Bounds’ six month mentorship program provides agile, project-based teams with the guidance they need to ...
Getting to Know: Intelesense Technologies
What do they do? Intelesense Technologies offers tools and support services for monitoring the environment and its inhabitants. A suite of three products: InteleCell, InteleView and InteleNet; provides sensor data and 3D visualization through an integrated global network. They have corporate offices in Hawaii, Research and Development in California, and field offices at each of ...
Humanitarian Toolbox
Originally posted at Humanitarian Toolbox, written by Gisli. We are incredibly honored to be a part of this initiative. Today we at NetHope, CrisisCommons and GeeksWithoutBounds are proud to announce, in partnership with Microsoft and DotNetRocks the launch of the Humanitarian Toolbox. The Humanitarian Toolbox is an initiative intended to help bring the expertise and good will of the software development community to the humanitarian world. Ever ...
September Digital Humanitarian Check-In
Attendees: List yourselves out as you join the call, the order we go in will be determined by this. Willow goes last. Evert with Haiti Connect Cat with Humanity Road Scott with FEMA Pascal with Crisis Commons Jen with Crisis Mappers Willow with Geeks Without Bounds Agenda: What we’re up to today – Willow Organizational ...
WaterMe Update #1
By Lindsay Oliver WaterMe, one of our accelerator teams, is working to lessen the impact of drought worldwide. They will achieve this by providing visualization tools to monitor the water content of crops and assist in irrigation testing, evaluating, and monitoring. This is made possible by extracting NASA’s MODIS data, mapping the previous 10 years ...
Help Haiti Connect get to RELIEF!
Our organisation is technology & development focused and our initial mission in Haiti was to build communication networks to be used by the various NGO’s, disaster response organisations and local government. We have since expanded our scope and in the 2.5 years since we have supplied Internet access and computer network equipment and services to ...
Digital Humanitarian check-in call
Attendees: Willow Brugh – Geeks Without Bounds Cat – Humanity Road Sara – Hunch Works, SBTF Chris – Humanity Road David – Crisis Commons Pascal – UW and Crisis Commons Agenda: Organizational overview – what has everyone been up to? Take 3 minutes tops.
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