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CrisisCamper Tour - Los Angeles MeetUp

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PT)

West Hollywood, CA

CrisisCamper Tour - Los Angeles MeetUp

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Come learn about the Crisis Commons, Social Media and Emergency Management. The Crisis Camper is coming through Los Angeles, and will stop to meet-up with local disaster response volunteers, techs, programmers, social media and public affairs specialists, mappers, and emergency managers. Join in the collaboration to help our communities be better prepared. 

Join us when you can from 6:30pm until around 8:30pm at the Formosa Cafe in the traincar. No formal agenda - bring your ideas, laptops, and open-minds. This is an opportunity to brainstorm projects for the tour, discuss our recent local support during Carmageddon and nationally for Hurricane Irene, and opportunities to build our community in SoCal! Everyone is welcome!

We'll have a projector set-up and attendees are welcome to make brief presentations or demo tools and ideas.

 

What is the CrisisCamper?

The CrisisCamper Tour for National Preparedness Month is promoting digital preparedness and open data to help communities be better prepared for crisis. Throughout the tour, CrisisCommons will learn from the crisis experts and the tech community to help collaborate and support local emergency managers, public health officials, and community organizers in building relationships and technical applications/processes across these communities.

The Tour bgins in the Bay Area with meetings in SF, San Jose and Silicon Valley. It will travel to UCSB, and following Los Angeles will meet with volunteers technology communities and emergency officials in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.

 

Learn More

http://crisiscommons.org/

http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://crisiscommons.org/tour/

 

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Formosa Cafe
7156 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90046

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PT)


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CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development.

CrisisCommons actively supports CrisisCamp, a barcamp event, which seeks to connect a global network of volunteers who use creative problem solving and open technologies to help people and communities in times and places of crisis.

CrisisCampers are not only technical folks like coders, programmers, geospatial and visualization ninjas but we are also filled to the brim with super creative and smart folks who can lead teams, manage projects, share information, search the internet, translate languages, know usability, can write a research paper and can help us edit wikis.

CrisisCamp began in March 2009 as a barcamp event to connect crisis management and global development practitioners to the technology volunteer community. During the Haiti response, CrisisCamp became a movement and added a response mechanism to the community.

In 2010, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars granted a planning grant  and a Trustee Grant to support the development of CrisisCommons to help curate a new body of knowledge, document lessons learned from volunteer response and to convene communities to support the growth of CrisisCamps at the local level and the partnership capacity of CrisisCommons to provide infrastructure and other resources to the CrisisCamp and other volunteer technology communities.

Since 2009, CrisisCommons has coordinated crisis event responses such at the Haiti, Chile and Japan Earthquakes and the floods in Thailand, Nashville and Pakistan. Over 3,000 people have participated worldwide in over 30 cities across 10 countries including France, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Chile and Colombia.

We are currently building a CrisisCamp Directory so that people can connect locally and build resources like open data profiles which can be used if there was ever a crisis. If you are looking to sign up to create a CrisisCamp or if you just want to let us know you want to volunteer to help out. Sign up!

Be sure to join the conversation on our email group – its where the latest and greatest information is shared.