Crisis Informatics

Leysia PalenProject EPIC

University of Colorado Boulder

AP/Jae C Hong

PeopleResources

Information

Mass Convergence

FEMA photo/Ed Ahi

FEMA photo/Andrea Booher

FEMA photo/Booher

OFFICIAL RESPONSE

“Formal”

FEMA

FEMA

FEMA

PUBLICRESPONSE“Informal”

FEMA

USCG photo/Chief Brandon Brewer

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PUBLICRESPONSE“Informal”

OFFICIAL RESPONSE

“Formal”

PUBLICRESPONSE“Informal”

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Two Forms of Public Response:Spontaneous

Solicited

Fukushima city, "Youkubeni"(?) mall, Peace Temple store, waiting in the checkout line.There's no bread yet. As for daily items, (we are) without water, rice and plastic wrap.There used to be more than enough, an abundance, of everything you could imagine, from vegetables to fish and meat.

Self-Organization ofDigital Helper Networks

FEMA/Andrea Booher

Geeks for HaitiCrisisCamps

Humanitarian Open Street Map: Haiti

FEMA/Andrea Booher

Red River Flood Community Sandbagging Effort, 2009

FEMA/Andrea Booher

What are good disaster-basedcrowdsourcing tasks?

What’s Ahead?

FEMA/Jocelyn Augustino

Crises are Places of Innovation

Fundamental Institutional Shifts inPractice & Policy

FEMA/Howard Greenblatt

Howard Greenblatt/FEMA

Leysia Palen

FEMA/Michael RiegerColorado Waldo Canyon Fire Joint Info. Center 2012

Perilous but Promising:CS Research is Deeply Consequential

Astrodome Shelter, Katrina AftermathFEMA/Andrea Booher

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