Crisis Mappers Net - THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CRISIS MAPPERS

About

Leveraging mobile platforms, computational linguistics, geospatial technologies, and visual analytics to power effective early warning for rapid response to complex humanitarian emergencies.

The International Network of Crisis Mappers (CM*Net) was launched by 100 Crisis Mappers at the first International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM 2009) in October 2009. As the world's premier crisis mapping hub, CM*Net will encourage communication and collaboration between and among crisis mappers with the purpose of advancing the study and application of crisis mapping worldwide. Link: CM*Net Proposal for 2010: First Draft.

Please use the forum as an ideas center for discussions and file sharing and the blogs for publishing.

CM*Net and ICCM 2009 co-founders Patrick Meier and Jen Ziemke look forward to continuing the exciting conversations started at ICCM 2009!

To all ICCM 2009 participants, please share your feedback here!

Forum

Cluster Surveys: Mapping the Results 1 Reply

Hello, I am currently preparing a measles vaccination coverage survey for parts of West Africa. Without a proper sampling frame, I am limited to two-stage cluster sampling methods. A limitation of...

Started by John Pringle in Projects. Last reply by John Pringle Nov 23.

Crisis-mapping forest and bush-fires 1 Reply

One very particular type of fast-moving crisis is a raging forest fire (or bush fire as we call them), of the type that killed 121 people north of Melbourne on February 9th this year on "Black Satu...

Tagged: Australia, forest, fire, Bush

Started by Charles Worringham in Videos. Last reply by Chris Blow Nov 22.

Sudan: Election Crisis Reveals a Country Lurching Toward War

Article shared and highly recommended by Jennifer Leaning: http://www.sudanreeves.org/Article251.ht

Tagged: Elections, Sudan

Started by Patrick Meier in Projects Nov 18.

Online Maps: Everyman Offers New Directions

Link: From this week's NY Times.

Tagged: NYT

Started by Patrick Meier in Projects Nov 18.

New collaboration with Walking Papers -- looking for ideas and assistance

Team, I've posted a new blog entry here on a concept I've dubbed "Talking Papers" and I'd be grateful for your feedback and suggestions. http://humanitariantech.com/ Thanks

Started by Robert Kirkpatrick in Projects Nov 16.

Encourage local activists and affected populations to join and participate in CM*Net!

In her well-considered comments about ICCM 2009, Emily Jacobi suggested we should all work to ensure CM*Net involves local activists, partners, and affected populations. She said, "our local partne...

Started by jen ziemke in Projects Nov 12.

Blog Posts

Burundi Election Violence Prevention program

I can be contacted by email at dave@aglionline.org

As part of the Burundi Election Violence Prevention Program, we are working on a system that will quickly get information from the grassroots to a centralized communications center for dissimulation to the larger, particularly policy making world. I am forming an IT Election Warning System listserve for those who would like to be on a development committee for this. If you would like to be on this listserve, please let me know and I'll put you… Continue

Posted by David Zarembka on November 17, 2009 at 1:41pm

Map Kibera Project - Press Release!

Kenyans collaborate with international mappers to complete first free and open map of Africa’s largest slum: Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya

Map Kibera to shed new light on details of troubled slum for public use

Nairobi, Kenya - October 24, 2009 – This November, motivated young Kenyans will create the first public digital map of Kibera, widely known as Africa’s largest slum. Map Kibera is a collaborative project lead by Mikel Maron of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

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Posted by Patrick Meier on November 5, 2009 at 2:22pm

Geospatial Volunteers for YOU

I've gotten a couple queries about that group I mentioned, GISCorps, so wanted to post the info here. GISCorps (http://www.giscorps.org) provides geospatial professionals for all sorts of purposes, including humanitarian relief and human rights and mapping of all sorts. They have some extremely experienced folks ready to be volunteers, so if you have needs go ahead and submit a request to them. If you need help formulating your request or deciding what to as… Continue

Posted by Lars Bromley on October 26, 2009 at 2:09pm — 2 Comments

Costs of a Satellite

The concept of the "RusselSat" was briefly discussed in Cleveland. I had looked into the issue of my own satellite a couple years ago, though it was of course dubbed LarsSat, and found the costs were very significant. I wrote the below memo on the topic and had one of my staff update it for this group to give you an idea of what is involved. Note that this assumes we are looking for a satellite with one meter resolution or better. We find this quality to be best for human rights purposes, and th… Continue

Posted by Lars Bromley on October 26, 2009 at 1:12pm

Latest Activity

John Pringle replied to John Pringle's discussion 'Cluster Surveys: Mapping the Results'

For those interested in sampling methods for nomadic pastoralist populations, I recommend the Pastoralist Survey Method, presented in the article "New method for assessing acute malnutrition in nomadic pastoralist populations" by Anne-Marie Mayer,...

on Monday

Chris Blow replied to Charles Worringham's discussion 'Crisis-mapping forest and bush-fires'

Great points. Here are the very similar (and rudimentary) fire maps from Australia. I agree that the maps could be improved with extra data -- I think one good place to look is on the realtime networks, like Twitter. Fires in San Diego prompted...

on Sunday

Charles Worringham added a discussion

Crisis-mapping forest and bush-fires

One very particular type of fast-moving crisis is a raging forest fire (or bush fire as we call them), of the type that killed 121 people north of Melbourne on February 9th this year on "Black Saturday". Relaying up-to-date information to people o...

on Saturday