InSTEDD GeoChat for Crisis Mapping

GeoChat

Luke BeckmanNational Response Liaison

InSTEDD

Informed Collective Action

Radio-like comms

Field-based awareness

Free

Open-Source

Platform Agnostic

National, Regional, Local Gateways

Pull/Push RSS

Geo-Coded

Local language

Public, Private, Anonymous

Alerts

APIs

Easy Integration

GeoChat

Connect

Web, SMS, email, Twitter,

or Skype

Visualize

one another’s locations on

the map

Report

what you are seeing on the

ground

Receive

critical alerts and news

stories

Decide

the best course of

action jointly

GeoChat

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GeoChat

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Referral Labs Human Cases

Isolation Wards

Women’s Co-op Agricultural Groups

Tracking Orcas

AIDS and TB Clinical Management

Neighborhood Watch

Daily Commodity Prices

Earthquake Refugee Camp Management

Email for the Bottom Billion

The Future• Simpler User Interface

• Wider Adoption

• Import additional data layers

• Sync structured data (requests, reports, etc.) on to the map.

• Offline client for disconnected operations

• Pluggable encryption

• Sensor integration

• SmartPhone/PDA client

• Social Networking

• Integrated Analytics – tag clouds, entity extraction, etc.

• Radio integration? Voice? Video?

Thank You!

Luke Beckman650-740-5853

[email protected]