An interesting event taking place in Australia September 4-5 – CrisisCamp Pakistan Floods. From the event planners… If you are interested in making a small difference in helping the humanitarian effort of attending to the short and long-term needs of the displaced peoples in Pakistan, register here (http://pkfloods-sydney.eventbrite.com/) The CrisisCamp will be on the weekend of 4th and 5th of September. We will be going through a number of tasks that will help the aid agencies on the ground. These include:
- Adding reports of emergency incidents from the ground to http://pakreport.org/ushahidi/ using http://pakreport.crowdflower.com
- Working with expatriate Pakistanis who can help you translate local terms and names of places for entry into the reports
- Reading reports from relief agencies, identifying information about hospitals, shelters and schools and adding the data about their locations, capacity and other relief-related information to Sahana and OpenStreetMap
- Tracing satellite imagery to add the location of roads and infrastructure
- If you are an expat Pakistani who speaks Pushto, Seraiki, Sindhi or Panjabi come along and help find the names of remote villages.
- Documenting lessons learned from the CrisisCamp to help others
- Writing tools and software help automate the above tasks
What: CrisisCamp Pakistan Floods in Sydney
When: 4th and 5th of September 8am-5pm
Where: LAW 203 , University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, Sydney
See http://pkfloods-sydney.eventbrite.com/
