Functional and Stable
Speak2Tweet - Speak2Tweet was born out of GWOBorg working with folks at Meedan and Tropo to start collecting field reports via SMS and telephone in the Arab Spring. With limited information coming from within Egypt, we decided we’ll turn up the volume on the Digital Mountain Top and listen from where we can reach today. Anyone who can make a phone call or Skype can now leave a voice message and document eyewitness accounts. This message will be transcribed in english and documented. We’ll be adding additional channels and local numbers as they become available. Disclaimers: It’s important to note, this is just BETA, and NOT FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE. At this stage, this is purely a tool for citizen journalists to record their observations to the cloud. This site does only English, see Tweet2SpeakTranslate for that. This entire site is automated – we do not censor, edit, spell check, or verify any of the calls coming in.
In the Works
CanHas – populate a map of needs via tweets, be able to address those needs via other tweets.
Open211 – The Redirectory is a community-edited social services database with online geo-located search and mobile search interaction. A simple process is explained where any user or developer can either manually enter/massage data or use a hosted scraperwiki to build a data bridge from existing content/data into the Redirectory, making it available to any user. A Tropo front end augments the web search interface to provide SMS, IM, and eventually voice interaction with the search query feature to provide a list of relevant local services which the user may then contact/visit.
Prototyped
HelpSauce – helpsauce.com is a way to associate trends in social media updates with emerging crises, so that when looking at a map of a particular crisis area, the user can get relevant updates. Progress RHOK3 Redmond Able to hit a specific disaster primarily by geographic proximity and also disaster name (#rhoksea) or Tweet (!help, !sos, ptlboom). url: helpsauce.com (still need hosting setup) code repository established: github initial api: (api.helpsauce.com) is operational and public database: (helpsauce.iriscouch.com) is set up demo: running on local machine, but the api is aliased to use the live api (currently only sourcing Twitter api, with plans for including other social networking sources, such as geoloqi.com)
MoveFood – Move Food is a tool for businesses and volunteers to connect and get leftover/unused food that would otherwise be thrown out to people in need on an ad hoc basis. It create the connections required for People/Businesses that have food and volunteers that have the means to help to deliver those food products to persons in need (shelters, homes, camps, individuals). The transaction model of “I Have Resources/I can Help get Those Resources To Those In Need” is universally re-usable for any situation. An upleveled version of Move Food can be used for disaster relief coordination and many other use cases. We chose to focus on the core transaction for this first release: A user registers, can post an item or claim an item. Everything beyond that is gravy. V.01 – Allows either an entity with food or a volunteer that can help to register on the site – Allows a resource to post a food item – Allows a volunteer to “claim” or cancel the pickup of a food item – Allows both to see what they have claimed and a history – Allows a registered user to announce an item is available via sms – Logs all transactions (for analytics and reporting) – Provides Restful API into Move Food data – Announces item submission in short format to Twitter and text
SAARAA – Situational Awareness and Rapid Assessment Application – Local emergency management has a need to know what is happening as fast as possible during incidents. With the increase in mobile “sensors” of information out in the communities we need to increase our ability to receive this information as fast and efficiently as possible for both end users. Most of this has already been developed, but the advancement of mobile applications has provided a great need for redevelopment.
