Sinsai devnest

How open collaboration helps disaster-affected people

http://sinsai.info/

• What happened after the earthquake?

• sinsai.info

• 3 months after 11th March

• What can you do ?

TOPICS

• Lives in London

• In charge of international communication at sinsai.info (@sinsai_info_en)

• A developer (Ruby On Rails at @newbamboo ) with No prior volunteer experience nor interests until Mar 11th 2011

@makoto_inoue

Mar.11th 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5541815267/in/set-72157626305323978

• More than 15,000 people were killed.

• There are still another 8,000 people missing.

Infrastructure was disrupted

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5549191112/in/set-72157626305323978

• Roads were completely disrupted.

• Electricity and cell-phone networks were washed away.

• Cell-phone were useless more than 24hrs even in Tokyo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5549191112/in/set-72157626305323978

Internet worked fine• Data explosion

• Data curation

• Curated system

Data Explosion

- Report by NEC Big Globe- 3/11 ~ 4/11- 73,694,790- Average Tweet per day (before) = 18,000,000- Average Tweet per day (3/11) = 33,000,000- Average Tweet per day (after) = 22,000,000

http://gigazine.net/news/20110427_earthquake_twitter/

Data Explosion

http://gigazine.net/news/20110427_earthquake_twitter/- Before (31 % entertaintment, 25 % animation, 7% transportation, 5% earthquake)- After (72% earthquake, 8% transportation)

Data Curation

Data Curation

- initially people were spreading hashtags- Twitter announced official hashtags and advised not to put more than 2 hashtags per tweet. #311sppt is only for people requesting help from the disaster area

Data Curation

@takepon_jp [pls RT] Looking for my friends, 20 yrs old, height 150cm, black hair with partially

blonde

Data Curation

@takepon_jp [pls RT] Looking for my friends, 20 yrs old, height 150cm, black hair with partially

blonde

Celebs with many followers acted as hubs to spread important information

Data Curation

Data Curation

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-11-japan-social-media_N.htm

John Roos is US ambassador to Japan

Some people were directly reaching influential figures

Data Curation

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-11-japan-social-media_N.htm

“Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest rescue in this history of mankind.......”

- Operation “Tomodachi” -

Data Curation(or not)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-11-japan-social-media_N.htm

http://longtailworld.blogspot.com/2011/03/operation-tomodachi-is-real-but-obamas.html

“Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind........”

- Independence Day , President Speech -

Data Curation(Types of false information)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-11-japan-social-media_N.htm

http://www.kotono8.com/2011/04/08dema.html

- Confused information (Partially correct)- Lack of scientific backing- False announcement- Criticising / praising government, political parties, celebrities, companies- Joke, Racism

Not all the information was curated properly. The use of unofficial “RT” made it difficult to delete the original tweet even after the information is false. Twitter announced to encourage the use of official tweet

Curated system

Curated system

- Google person finder- launched after 2 hrs- over 600,000 records- Integrated with Picassa to convert name list from evacuation Center into the system with crowd source.

sinsai.info

Example reportWe need help! We are stuck in

isolation at Akasaka hospital and getting suffer. Please spread this

information to the others.

I made a phone-call to Self-Defence force and they said they would go help ASAP

...

sinsai.info

• Geo tagged report using Open Street Map

• Directly from the form & via twitter

• Monitored , geotagged, and moderated by volunteers

• Launched within 4 hrs

It was even used during London tube strikes.

•Over 10,000 reports

• 1,000,000+ PV in first month

• 650,000+ Visits

• 500,000+ Unique Visitors

•Accessed from Sendai the most

Usage

3 months after 11 MarHow is Japan doing?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

sinsai.info March

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

1. safety enquiry2.available service3. news

sinsai.info April

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

1. news2. available service3. victims’ home stay

sinsai.info May

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

1. available service2. home stay offers3. safety enquiry

Relief to recovery

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001984/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Pictures-recovery-3-months-later.html

Relief to recovery

Relief to recovery

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hichako/5547226578/

We are organising “Volunteer package”

Open data & collaboration(not just from twitter)

Open Data encourages mash ups.

http://wiki.ushahidi.com/doku.php?id=ushahidi_api

http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/

What can you do?

hack4japan

http://code.google.com/p/open-geiger-development-kit/

hack4japan

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20110523/360558/?ST=develop&P=5

hack4japan

http://kizuna.sinsai.info/

hack4japan UK?

http://lanyrd.com/2011/hack4jp-uk-may/

Thank you !!

http://sinsai-info-en.blogspot.com@makoto_inoue@sinsai_info_en

http://sinsai.info/@sinsai_info_en