 Hi, good morning. I'm Kay Chatman. I'm the executive director of the humanitarian open street map team And I'm excited to do the first I believe the first LCA humanitarian open-source mini-comp This was actually an idea five or six years ago. Someone asked me if I wanted to come to Australia and participate in a open humanitarian open-source mini-comp, but I Wasn't involved in the LCA community at the time and Australia then seemed really far away So this is my third time at LCA and I'm excited to bring together a Great group of speakers today to talk about their individual projects that use open-source software specifically for humanitarian related purposes I Wanted to do a quick little hand survey of the room to get so that we'd all get an idea of where people's backgrounds are from And the first is just a simple question of how many people Participate in a h-foss project or have supported software that's used for humanitarian purposes So you have a couple Who's Implemented software and what would be considered low or middle income countries some people call them develop developing countries The global south which is a bit weird since we're in New Zealand That sort of world of there's not a good politically correct term for it Okay And who's supported software being used actively to respond to a crisis? So a lot of experience sort of in that room. Okay good to know where people are coming from I guess the other side is who's here because they're introduced interested in the world of H-foss and Don't know too much about it Okay, great. I'm gonna start off and give a presentation about a specific project that the humanitarian open-street map team works on and following me The awkward the orders a little awkward But Chris Daley is gonna actually give an introduction to humanitarian response so outside of open-source software because there's a bureaucratic structure and Method and cycle the way that works and I think it's good to have an idea about it because when I became involved in H-foss, I actually didn't know anything about it myself So first I'm first I'm gonna talk about the missing maps project and to not get too far ahead of myself So as I said, I'm the executive director of the humanitarian open-street map team We use open-source and open data to help communities in vulnerable areas better respond and prepare for crisis and I actually gave a keynote last year at LCA about our Overall mission and project. This is a very specific project that we just launched in November of this year to go back to 1864 to talk about why Maps today are important. So this is John Snow. He was a physician in London He was the first person to use maps to do In the field of medical geography and up in the ugeology and so what he did is there was a color outbreak And at the time people believed that cholera came from bad air Not from the water and he had a suspicion that it was actually coming from a specific water pump on Broad Street in London This is his map and simply what he did is he mapped the pumps and the cholera cases And you could see that they're clustered as one specific pump He actually did this mapping after the fact But prior to this he was convincing enough to the local council to convince them to move remove the pump handle Off of the pump and the cholera outbreak subsided rather quickly But to really show that it was in fact that he created this map picture the road information that he stick in the cases and the pumps on top of If you don't have that basic information You can't make them up at all You can have those dots, but they would mean nothing So believe it or not This is still very much a problem There's plenty of countries and localities where there's blank spots. That's for a variety of reasons from Sometimes The data does exist, but it's not really accessible. Maybe only the government has it Maybe only one department in the government has it and they don't share it with the other departments Or maybe it's just not up to date. Maybe there's commercial data available, but it's cost prohibitive Or maybe there isn't because It's not a economic view. Does it economically viable place to map for commercial reasons? So in comes the missing maps project So our goal is in the next two years to help map 20 million of those vulnerable people in the world And the reason for this is by having that basic map information Very much as John Snow did we can map things like cholera cases Ebola also disasters Such as tycoon high on the Philippines There was quick and hey Have the basic geographic information allows you to just simply make better decisions You can imagine you're trying to route from point A to point B You could use a map and a routing algorithm to find the most effective way or you could just drive down the road with a truck and hope You can make it. So what's been really exciting For us the humanitarian open-street map team is this is the first time we've really formally partnered with large humanitarian Organizations, and this is really what the difference is we've been Creating maps that have been used in response since 2009 our community originally would just come together and take Open data satellite information and you can imagine with satellite pictures trace over it to pull out roads and buildings and things like that but Maybe people would use it and often they did because it would be the best source of base information But we weren't formally pre-mapping areas really and so by working with the American and British Red Cross And also doctors without borders UK. We're working together in places to pre-map I said before it's really about putting them worlds vulnerable people in a map, but this is this isn't People in the sense of watching us walk around. This is that base map data that I've been talking about really important is our core ethics and You'll hear about the core ethics of humanitarian response as well in the next talk So for us what's really important is open Open as an open source open collaboration and open data being respectful and being respectful really means being respectful of local communities and Also local access so often what the issue is is data has been created But local people have no access to it and that can really mean things like Needing to provide technology and training so people can access it and sometimes it's honestly printing. We do a lot of printing for example in 2012 Hot worked with partners to map Jakarta for flood preparedness. There's 267 urban villages in Jakarta We printed a poster map for every single one of those villages Later that year when there was flooding we went back people were using those printed maps because there's not typically computers in the local government Office is there so it's really thinking about how we can work with the local communities to Help them create the maps, but also then use them not just taking data So we're doing this as a three-step process One of the big parts of it is we're gathering remote volunteers to trace satellite information And this is done both people from the comfort of their own homes as well as in Events there's monthly events in Washington, T.C. In London at the moment. We're hoping to have at others There's one in Portland, Oregon on Saturday and What this does is essentially it's vectorizing the satellite information so that there's actual Data sets of roads and buildings and what that means is you can then attach other information to it so Then when we go and actually you step to mapping this community volunteers We can print maps and have people write Road names Details about buildings and that sort of information and then put that back into open street map so that there's detailed Information a detailed database of an area and then third is simply Use so international non-government organizations governments local groups Local communities are able to actually plan in case of disaster and also respond This is just simply a picture of one of our mapping parties I like to point out one thing that I've also noticed a bit in this room as well is Open street map is not very gender diverse, but the missing maps project. We Are getting there's a ton of minorities and women and groups that we don't normally see in our project and And it's been really exciting and I think some of it is just we've been a little more newbie Friendly and some of that is just having really great people from The American Red Cross the British Red Cross and MSF involved who are coming at it from a fresh Fresh set of eyes so MSF UK provides a halftime Communication specialist so he's come to open street map from only a communications background And so it's really allowed us to approach things in a different way so after those groups Digitized that information It's then printed on the paper maps and data is collected in those communities so these are individuals from the use University of Lubumbashi and the Democratic Republic of Congo and They're using a software called field papers And so field papers is a website where you can print an atlas of maps They have a QR marker on them and then other Markers and what that allows you to do is you just take the map treat it like a regular map and write on it but you can take a picture of it and upload it and then it's already referenced geographically to the other information so Imagine you have your field paper here and your open street map data. You can view them together to transcribe your notes and then here is a Team from the Red Cross using open street map data in high-end After type in high-end in the Philippines so they're using it both as printed maps and on tablets and They're using it to plan the response. They also did a preliminary test of using open street map data as part of their damage assessment which Essentially we ask volunteers to rate damage based on the satellite information it proved not to work all that well But we're looking at ways that we can improve that Because one of the big things with a lot of the open-street map tools It wasn't built with this in mind at all It was built to create a free map of the entire world So there's aspects that are used in traditional Geographic information systems that are missing a really simple one for example is if you're looking at a satellite picture And you turn it it looks different So if you're trying to imagine your perspective of mapping of the buildings damaged or not Just turning 90 degrees makes it a little easier, but none of the open-street map software does that So it's a simple example of things we'd like to improve to be able to Better do this to sort of work. This is I wanted to get into the software of what we use primarily web applications so at the core of the missing maps project and Actually all of hot disaster response right at related work is what we call the open-street map tasking manager and What this does is you highlight an area it divides it into squares, and then you can ask people to take a square So essentially a check-in check out to say hey, I'm working on this square and The reason for this is originally when people originally started doing mapping five years ago The way you helped is you had to just go find a blank spot this way we can track coverage Volunteers can ask the questions we can give them new day sources of satellite data those sorts of things and This is a web editor. This is just on the front of open-street map.org So if you went to open-street map had had an account signed in you'd get this editor, which is known as ID and So a lot of people use ID Because you don't need to download any software or do anything else you can do this from the property your own home So that essentially you start in the tasking manager you select an area And then it'll open it here and you can begin mapping and then once again after it's digitized out in the field. This is a Staff from Doctors Without Borders UK working once again from students from the University of Lobo Mbashi to collect information there so Hopefully some of you are interested in getting involved. So I wanted to highlight some of those ways as well The simplest way is to map Um Donations are always great as well, and you can also sign up sign up to our mailing lists follow hot website Twitter and There's different ways to join in we'll be launching as well a field roster for Missings maps field field deployment in the next week And what that is it's you can sign up to go with these organizations to help do the field mapping Definitely, we'll need people with experience When we first start doing this, but we're looking at ways we can train people and get people involved as well We have done training before in the past Internships and volunteerships We're an experienced person an experienced person work together to get those skills a lot of the people who volunteer and also contract for hot come from either a humanitarian GIS background or a tech background and then have gained Field experience through hot myself for example, I was a web developer and got involved in 2010 and Started going with an experienced humanitarian worker to work on these sorts of projects Hosting mapping parties is great. So as I mentioned we have in-person events. We have a lot of great Documentation now This is a little tabletop tent that you can put at tables At your map with on so people can follow us through the instructions and then behind it is instructions So we love people that want to organize these sorts of events You don't need a lot of experience and we can support you and get you started in that as well For example the map with on in Portland that happened on Saturday We're supporting an intern through the GNOME outreach program for women and so she was not involved in open-street map at all until about a month month and a half ago and Organized a map with on and some of the other open-street map community community in the area that normally map their homes and The areas in Portland joined in to help her as I said, there's still a lot of blank spots on the map One of the things we're working on our where are the unmapped people? How do you know that? so that we know what areas to focus on and We're hope we're hoping you know, there's eventually a day where there aren't those unmapped people So if any of this sounds interesting come talk to me at any time We'd love to have more Volunteers and if we all work together Everyone hopefully in this room is used to the open-source ethos of collaboration and it's no different in mapping We can really make a difference So thank you very much