Author Archives: Anahi

The Libya Crisis Map Information Flow

By Anahi | Published: March 16
Organizing and working remotely with almost 400 volunteers all over the world is not an easy task. The standbytaskforce.com for this reason has a structured system that allows the volunteers to join different teams, divide the work to be done in sub-tasks and then aggregate the final product in the Ushahidi platform.  This [...]
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Libya Crisis Map: 2nd Situation Report

By Anahi | Published: March 5
Taksforce Report: Libya Crisis Map Date: March 5 (reports at 9am EST) Summary Over 300 unique reports mapped; detailing nearly 400 different events Two main clusters of reports: largest around Tripoli – Zauara (extending west towards the border with Tunisia); secondone around Bengbazi extending to the border crossing with Egypt at Bardiyah. The background [...]
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Libya Crisis Map: 1st Situation Report

By Anahi | Published: March 5
Taksforce Report: Libya Crisis Map Date: March 4 (reports at 10:30am EST) Summary 263 unique reports mapped; detailing over 300 different events; 40% verified Three main clusters of reports: largest around Tripoli – Zauara (extending west towards the border with Tunisia); one around Bengbazi; one around the border crossing with Egypt at Bardiyah  [...]
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Crisis Mapping Libya: This is No Haiti

By Anahi | Published: March 4
This Blog post has been originally being posted in Patrick Meier’s blog iRevolution. We activated the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) on March 1st and quickly launched a Crisis Map of Libya to support humanitarian preparedness operations. This is the largest deployment of the Task Force since it was formed at the International Conference [...]
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The importance of Social Media - Esri Federal User Conference

By Anahi | Published: January 24
On January 19 - 21 the Esri Federal User Conference (FedUC) took place in Washington DC. This conference is an invaluable learning opportunity and a gathering of federal geospatial leaders, decision makers, and geographic information system (GIS) professionals. standbytaskforce.com member Craig Luecke, 20 year member of an Urban Search & Rescue Team [...]
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Haiti’s viral volunteers: How social media is changing the face of crisis response

By Anahi | Published: January 12
This Blog Post was originally posted on the Washington Post, Leadership Series on January 11 Jaroslav Valuch is cofounder and one of the coordinators of the standbytaskforce.com, an online volunteer community for live mapping that aims to provide a reliable interface between the online volunteer community and local and international humanitarian responders. [...]
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