CrisisCamp Shows How Open Source Tech Can Respond to Disasters

Ireland’s first CrisisCamp on 26 February at NUI Galway will show how open source software and hardware can be used to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and crises, such as the earthquake in Haiti. On 26 February, NUI Galway's Discipline of Information Technology and Haiti Connect will be hosting Ireland's first CrisisCamp to show how open source software and hardware can respond to disasters and improve resiliency and response before a crisis.

CrisisCommons is a global community of volunteers from academic, technology, crisis response organisations, academics, government agencies and citizens focused on getting the best out of available technology for humanitarian purposes. CrisisCamp began in March 2009 as an event to connect crisis management and global development practitioners to the technology volunteer community. During the Haiti response, CrisisCamp became a movement and added a response mechanism to the community.

Since 2009, CrisisCommons has co-ordinated crisis event responses such as the Haiti, Chile and Japan earthquakes and the floods in Thailand, Nashville and Pakistan...