This page lists potential projects that we're aware of, and is updated as we learn more. Each project has a brief summary on this page, and it's own page linked from the table directly below.
Please contact the project organizer if you're interested in the project. If no organizer is listed and the project speaks to you, feel free to take the lead.
We are looking for assistance in helping the development of a prototype for a proposal for the extension of standards - RSS and XML-RPC Ping, and an architecture that will allow for information flow from infromation sources such as blogs and content sites to an aggregator and mash-up to a map. http://www.recovery2.net
I think there should be an open-source Shelter Operating System. This would be software designed to run on a diverse range of computers with a diverse range of connectivity options that would manage shelter activities.
The telephone remains the dominant way people communicate. We need tools to deploy volunteer phone banks that scale rapidly and cheaply.
Provide a framework for live interpretation for cross-language and cross-mode communications.
The Disaster Zone Visualizer finds, organizes, and presents photos, videos, and other media. So volunteers and the displaced can see the latest imagery of their neighborhood, and create virtual tours using fresh content from the affected areas.
Why aren't there ad-hoc battery-powered "cell towers in a barrel" that could be "bombed" or floated into disaster zones to turn the thousands of useless cell phones in people's pockets into a crisis mesh network?
Classmates.com meets Yahoo! Groups meets mediawiki. Upload classified and white page directories of the region. Then allow people from the region to search for people (not family) from work, school, clubs, their neighborhood. Let people mark up the directories with pointers back to their profiles. So a local church in diaspora could still be connected virtually. So a chamber of commerce scattered over six states could plan to rebuild. (better name?)
Let me order products online and on TV. Deliver them to places, people, or organizations of my choice.
With so many people offline after a major event in developed countries, or never online in the first place, providing a seamless integration with postal services extends the reach of online projects. Postal services, the kind who deliver atoms to your door, have an excellent infrastructure in most of the world.
Even if this article is substantially inaccurate, a fall-back would still seem prudent. Plus, it would be better to have something international.
A geographic database of civic information that is built to be filled or populated by participants and volunteers in a massively parallelized effort to document and network their local disaster-relevant non-profits.
An interesting idea from Tom Williams of GiveMeaning
Development of an extremely easy-to-use secure communications privacy system for human rights NGOs.
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