humanitarian-space

http://hhi.harvard.edu/research/signal#intro The program works to advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of information technologies by communities of practice during humanitarian and human rights emergencies.

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Curricular Innovation Program

http://hhi.harvard.edu/education/curricular-innovation#intro

What 3 Words

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/the-most-interesting-story-about-postal-addresses-you-have-ever-read/487160/ http://stevecoast.com/2016/03/25/why-i-like-what3words/ https://blog.ldodds.com/2016/06/14/what-3-words-jog-on-mate/ http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=589 http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/blog/location-grid-not-an-address/

HXL, Humanitarian Exchange Language

http://hxlstandard.org/

HXL User Cases

https://medium.com/@Simon_B_Johnson/how-hxl-is-being-used-at-the-british-red-cross-281c0b632df6#.y6tzbelbx

**what HXL could use is a mobile app

OCHA functional review 2015

https://www.scribd.com/document/336603381/2016-OCHA-Functional-Review

C4ADS

http://c4ads.org/about-us/ C4ADS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporting on global conflict and transnational security issues.

EdEx Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster Course

https://www.edx.org/course/humanitarian-response-conflict-disaster-harvardx-ph558x#

Afghanistan IMMAP GeoNode

http://asdc.immap.org/

OpenDRI Overview

https://www.gfdrr.org/sites/default/files/publication/OpenDRI_Overview_2013.pdf

Innovation UNHCR

http://innovation.unhcr.org

https://www.nanseninitiative.org/

inter-governmental process to address the challenges of cross-border displacement in the context of disasters and the effects of climate change.

Path

Global Health International NGO http://www.path.org/about/index.php

Conferences

The Global Health & Innovation Conference (#GHIC) http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/

Black Sky

can be used for alerts https://www.blacksky.com/

IDMC: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

http://www.internal-displacement.org/

UNOSAT's Flood Finder

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-8770.pdf?platform=hootsuite

CEOS

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Mission: CEOS ensures international coordination of civil space-based Earth observation programs and promotes exchange of data to optimize societal benefit and inform decision making for securing a prosperous and sustainable future for humankind.T http://ceos.org

GCOS

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) was established in 1992 to ensure that the observations and information required to address climate-related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users.

GEO

The intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is leading a worldwide effort to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). https://www.earthobservations.org/index.php

EMDAT (EM-DAT)

The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. The initiative aims to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as provide an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. http://www.emdat.be/

maybe can plot disasters over time

Malaria

http://www.disarm.io

The Centre for Humanitarian Data

https://centre.humdata.org/

Project 8

A global, digital information community where people come together to share, compare, analyze and discuss data and perspectives on sustainable development and evolving human need. http://demandinstitute.org/projects/project-8/

Project 8 was created by the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General, the United Nations Foundation and The Demand Institute (jointly operated by The Conference Board and Nielsen).

Gender Based Violence Area of Responsilbility (GBV AoR)

http://gbvaor.net/

RHIPTO

https://www.rhipto.org/ A UN-Collaborating Rapid Response Center on Environment, Development, Peace and Security

APAN

https://www.apan.org/ The All Partners Access Network is the Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

iEARN

iEARN-USA is a global education organization that provides various pathways for educators and students to connect and learn with their international peers.

MapAction

The capacity to deploy a fully trained and equipped humanitarian mapping and information management team anywhere across the globe, often within hours. https://mapaction.org

Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD)

https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/

Hurricane Harvey Response

https://blog.mapbox.com/hurricane-harvey-recovery-and-relief-maps-e0688ef3a075

Risk Map

http://news.mit.edu/2017/map-real-time-crowd-sourced-flood-reporting-hurricane-irma-0908

GeoSpark Analytics (BlueGlass)

geospark.io

MapStory Beta

https://beta.mapstory.org/

FEMA Crowdsourcing Damage Assessment App

http://imageryuploader.geoplatform.gov/DamageReview/

Another Crowdsourced Damage Assessment tool is MapMill

https://publiclab.org/wiki/mapmill

U.S National Action Plan

https://open.usa.gov/

Crowdsourced Fundraising

https://www.classy.org their processing fees can be as low as 1% for some partnerships (All Hands volunteers)

SMS

Frontline SMS

http://www.frontlinesms.com/

Texizen

https://www.textizen.com/

Unsure is IFRC TERA project is still active or not

http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/beneficiary-communications/tera/ http://sm4good.com/2013/03/06/ifrc-aid-20/#.Wd4y6MiGNPY

Response

Direct Relief

https://www.directrelief.org/

NetHope

Crowd Rescue HQ

http://www.crowdrescuehq.org/

Field Data Collection

MagPi

https://home.magpi.com/getting-started/

Pic4carto

http://projets.pavie.info/pic4carto/index.html Description: There are plenty open street-level pictures on the web (Mapillary, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons...). All of them have their own viewer. This website offers a simple, efficient geolocated picture viewer in order to make collaborative mappers' life easier.

Medic Mobil

https://medicmobile.org/tools

Digital Democracy

http://www.digital-democracy.org/ Digital Democracy empowers marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights

Mapeo

Offline participatory mapping. (Digital Democracy project) http://www.digital-democracy.org/mapeo/

MCC Data Collaboratives for Local Impact (DCLI), dlab, Tanzania

https://www.mcc.gov/blog/entry/blog-120116-dcli-model-capacity-building

Pre-fab houses

https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-7-inspiring-solutions-for-disaster-reli/f-dac534903e%2Fdwell.com

Global Food Security-Support Analysis Data @ 30-m (GFSAD30) Project

https://www.usgs.gov/news/new-map-worldwide-croplands-supports-food-and-water-security

STAR-TIDES Technology demonstration

http://star-tides.net/events/tides-annual-technology-demonstration The demo will host a live demonstration of innovative technologies to improve disaster assistance and development.

OpenReblock from Stamen

Looks like an online Minimum Spanning tool to plan better networks (transportation, utilities) to provide services to settlements https://hi.stamen.com/bringing-essential-infrastructure-and-services-to-urban-slums-worldwide-16126b4387f5

Global Urban Footprint

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.04862.pdf

WorldPop

http://www.worldpop.org.uk/

Compare Different Population Datasets (by CIESIN)

https://www.popgrid.org/compare-data

High resolution global gridded data for use in population studies (for WorldPop)

https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata20171

Facebook announcement of Open Population Data Sets

https://code.facebook.com/posts/596471193873876/open-population-datasets-and-open-challenges/

Humanitarian innovation Fund

http://www.elrha.org/hif/home/

The Humanitarian Genome Project

The Humanitarian Genome 1.0 was designed as the first version of a free, digital, open source and globally accessible application allowing humanitarian workers to quickly access evaluation data to inform their decision making. I don't know what happened to this project, but the website is down. http://humanitariangenome.org/ Here is the report http://www.elrha.org/map-location/humanitarian-genome-hg-generating-organizational-wisdom/. The Final Report is linked. Also here is a YouTube video of the Beta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZKt8rFi28

PIN (Protection, Information, Management)

http://pim.guide/

more about population datasets

https://www.popgrid.org/compare-data http://www.grid3.org/

ResourceWatch (https://resourcewatch.org/)

Many useful global datasets

FlowMinder (https://web.flowminder.org/)

non-profit, works with cellphone/CDR (call data records) data

WRI: Towards a more Equal City (https://www.wri.org/wri-citiesforall/cities-all)

The World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City focuses on helping cities in rapidly urbanizing regions alter their development trajectories as demand for infrastructure and services grows.

The Pudding visualizations and the 3-D population map

https://pudding.cool/2018/12/3d-cities-story/

Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab

The Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab at the School of Engineering (SEAS) and The Earth Institute, Columbia University uses engineering to help address development issues https://qsel.columbia.edu/

Mapping land rights

Cadesta (https://cadasta.org/) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asiapac-landrights-tech/hi-tech-mapping-has-good-intentions-for-land-rights-but-can-backfire-idUSKBN1W50L1

Flood risk data

SSBN/Fathom data: https://www.fathom.global/methodology

Agriculture

Atleas AI (https://www.atlasai.co/) delivers intelligence on agriculture, infrastructure, and economic trends across the developing world. The Rockefeller Foundation Established Atlas AI.

Mapping Afghanistan using OSM (Walker)

https://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2020/01/17/how-to-get-there-afghanistan-as-simple-as-putting-there-on-the-map

predicting wildfires

https://www.cnet.com/features/mapping-a-wildfires-next-move-is-getting-easier-thanks-to-computers/

Emergency Events Database

https://www.emdat.be/ EM-DAT was developed in 1988 and contains core data on the occurrence and effects of over 24,000 mass disasters from around the world, from 1900 to the present day. EM-DAT is maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), at UCLouvain.

https://github.com/GFDRR/pyEmdat

repo can be used to query the data

Predictive analytics in humanitarian action: a preliminary mapping and analysis (K4D, June 2020)

https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15455/EIR33_Humanitarian_Predictive_Analytics.pdf?sequence=1

Google Flood Forecasting Initiative

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/09/the-technology-behind-our-recent.html

World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study

https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/lsms/initiatives/lsms-ISA The Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) is a household survey project established with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by the LSMS team.

UN Unite Maps initiative

https://geoportal.dfs.un.org/arcgis/apps/sites/#/unitemaps

Where is my transport

We are the de facto source of mobility data for the world’s largest low- and middle-income cities. https://www.whereismytransport.com/

d3netxer/humanitarian-space

humanitarian-space

Dashboards

GDACS: A cooperation framework between the UN, EU, and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange, and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters.

HealthMaps: Collects information every hour from thousands of datasources about outbreaks

Big Data

UN Global Pulsec

GDELT

Response

Mission 4636

USGS's Hazards Data Distribution System (HDDS)

US Government Institutions

United States Institute of Peace

The PeaceTech Lab

UN Government Institutions

UNISDR: The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

The Sendai Framework is a 15-year voluntary, non-binding agreement that maps out a broad, people-centred approach to disaster risk reduction, succeeding the Hyogo Framework for Action.

p.22: (f) To support regional cooperation to deal with disaster preparedness, including through

UNESCO: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

Financial Tracking System: Tracking Global Humanitarian Aid Flows (UNOCHA)

beta site

Population

Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

World Population Data 2015

HOT Activations

Essentially there was a task on Zooniverse that used Planet Labs 5-meter resolution imagery to determine classifiable areas in Nepal. I think this could be a valuable input for HOT activations to help activators determine mapping gaps and plan mapping projects.

HOT partners

MapBox Engagement document

Youth Mappers

Exercises

Angel Thunder: largest and most realistic joint service, multinational, interagency combat search and rescue exercise

NGOs

GeoHazards International

Cities Alliance

PDF of book on Managing Systems of Secondary Cities

Citizen Science

White House blog post: Open Science and Innovation: Of the People, By the People, For the People

Commons Lab

Database of Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Projects

Verily

MicroMappers

Bringing together many types of information text, photo, video, imagery for volunteers to assess

Satellite Imagery SatSummit Primer

UAViators

AIDR (Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response)

AIDR (Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response) is a free and open source software that automatically collects and classifies tweets that are posted during humanitarian crises.

Drones and 3-D mapping

Blog post: 3-D Mapping in Nepal

3-D Mapping Software

OpenDroneMap

Pix4D

Millennium Challenge Corporation

USGEO: The U.S. Group on Earth Observations

Sustainable Development Goals

Tracking Open Data

Open Data Census

The Local Open Data Census to survey and compare the progress made by different cities and local areas in releasing Open Data. You can help by tracking down Open Data from a city or region where you live or that you’re interested in.

Global Open Data Index

The Global Open Data Index was created to provide an up-to-date and reliable guide to the state of global open data for policy-makers, researchers, journalists, activists and citizens.

Mikel Maron's post on building the Global Goals Data Census

labor and jobs

3-D immersive video

GFDRR

Good Infographic, shows loss in damages per year

Publications

IRDR

Rare Earth Minerals

from open data day DC 2016

Volcano Mapping

Flood Modeling

Global Flood Modeling

Joint Initiatives

US Gov and Military

Feed The Future

US Global Health Programs

Global Climate Change Initiative

PEPFAR

dashboards

Data Portals