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People's Radio - now with sound!
A radio channel made of ‘spoken tweets’ - short voice messages. Anyone can call a free-number - record a message and it'll be played on the People’s Radio. Citizens will be able to hear what's occurring in neighbouring communities and data gathered
Raise a Red Flag - Updated 5/17 with new information about a potential pilot!
Some organizations with strong ties to the outside world have staff on the ground in hard-to-access areas. Let's give these disparate networks of well-positioned, better-connected individuals a platform to Raise a Red Flag when trouble is observed!
Enabler Cards
What if we can enable people who live in hard-to-access areas to gather and send information, by giving them the information and tools to do so before violence erupts? Building on several inspirations and ideas, Enabler Cards explore that question.
Stop Mass Sexual Violence
The devastating consequences of rape--HIV, STDs and unwanted pregnancy--are preventable with inexpensive medications. Tracking these life-saving medications gives early, anonymous and geographic data about where mass sexual violence is occurring.
CrisisTracker: Real-time Social Media Curation
CrisisTracker is a web platform that extracts situation awareness reports from public tweets during humanitarian disasters. It combines automated processing with crowdsourcing to quickly detect new events and bring together related evidence.
Diaspora Alert
Using friends and family members from diasporas all around the world to gather information on first signs of mass violence and light the bat signal on behalf of their loved ones back home.
Making DIStress calls - Updated
What if we had a unique SOS number that could be called from any cell phone irrespective of the carrier?
Membrane Operable Logistic Electronic Epidermis (M.O.L.Es)
Electronic tattoos (“Biostamp”) conforms to the skin like a Flexible band-aid-like sticker that contains sensors and electronics This sensor will be able to detect heartbeat, respiration, motion, temperature and maybe even blood oxygenation.
*UPDATED w/ FAQ* A Voice For All: Use COSPAS-SARSAT to Empower Victims of Violence
A simple device that can function anywhere in the world where internet and cellular access are restricted, or non-existent - for free.
π - People's Intelligence: Networked reporting and verification
People's Intelligence automates the collection of relevant human rights and humanitarian information from hard to access areas and verifies it using crowdsourcing and “dumb” mobile phones.
The Beacon: Let Us Know You're Safe
The Beacon is an SMS based community alert and messaging system. Participants check in to The Beacon daily. If they fail to check in friends and family are alerted; if many people stop checking in suddenly, alerts are sent out to members nearby.
P.A.C.T. - Portable Anonymous Communication Technology
Creating global transparency through empowering people to disseminate information anonymously using low cost, portable communication technologies that allow voice, text, pictures, and videos to be shared with each other and the world.
Courier/Trader Network
For millennia traders and merchants have carried information between towns. The same can be done in a formalized way that also encourages commerce. Enlist people who naturally travel between villages for business to report what they hear.
StoryMaker - Create compelling, professional news stories using only a mobile phone
When mass violence happens, it is often difficult for professionals to reach and document in time. Citizens following simple task-based assignments can be relied upon to create credible documentation with only a mobile phone and no prior experience.
Quadcopter signal network
Quadcopters are capable of patrolling large areas, and they can easily carry cameras that can observe trouble areas and record warning signs and messages.
THREAD - a way to thread together information to take appropriate action
Thread is a platform that pieces together information from different places and connects this to the appropriate people and organizations to take action. By leveraging existing projects and technologies, Thread, connects them together.
Self-Administered Interviews
“The Self-Administered Interview (SAI) tool has been scientifically proven to preserve and protect eyewitness memory by eliciting a detailed recall account at the scene of an incident or soon after.”
Knowing by Numbers - Monitoring Total Network Connectivity
If when lines of communication can not be kept open, we can still use averaged network activity and connectivity declines as proxy indicators of a potential humanitarian crisis.
UN open satellite video monitoring
A satellite, managed by a UN agency, with a high resolution camera scanning Earth and providing open access to images
Atrocity Crimes Reporting Kit
An on-the-ground tool for civilians/communities experiencing atrocity crimes to report anonymously while provide location-specific information and the type of crimes being committed.
Wearable Operable Reporting Method (W.O.R.M)
I would like to build on several inspirations using low cost -technologies that can be aggregated to create a wearable emergency network.