1. Mobile Collaboration for Disaster Response Problems, Methods, and Tools Robert Kirkpatrick Chief Technology Officer

2. We create free and open-source software for collaboration toward collective action. We then teach other people how to create it for themselves.

5. In our opinion, collaboration , in humanitarian action is THE critical task Refugee management Cholera outbreak Katrina response

9. We think this is what collaboration requires… (…and we hope you have already built much of this.)

11. Stung Treng Province, Cambodia: SMS is the only option…

13. Linking early detection to rapid response: from a faint signal to collective action Merge & Analyze - Collective understanding - Response initiation Immediate analysis & decision support Peer-to-peer information sharing and collaboration Informed collective action Real-time exchange of information

15. GeoChat: Emergent Awareness

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19. Reflections for discussion Mobiles play a critical but partial role in crisis management. Successful mobile collaboration solutions for crisis management will have broad utility in other settings and markets. As with all disaster technology, interoperability trumps features. Pay attention to ease of data access and data integration when shopping. Broad adoption and daily use are key, so look at other scenarios. Issues: anonymity vs. verifiability, authentication, authorization, data retention. Thoughts? Robert Kirkpatrick CTO, InSTEDD http://www.instedd.org +1 650 796 5709 [email_address] Skype: robertkirkpatrick