The Humanitarian-ICT community

The Humanitarian ICT community consists of a global group of emergency management experts, humanitarian consultants, interested members from the NGO community and developers that strive to build applications to address the ICT needs of humanitarian problems. The group is centered around a mailing list and discuss various topics relevant to humanitarian-ict.

If you are interested, please join the Humanitarian-FOSS mailing list.

This WIKI exists as a neutral place to capture conclusions, guidelines, best practices and a scratchpad for this community and anyone who is working on humanitarian-ict best practices. If you and your group needs access to use this WIKI with the above objectives in mind, please ask for a username/password from either of the admins David Bitner ( bitner [at] dbspatial.com ) or Chamindra de Silva ( chamindra [at] sahanafoundation.org ).

• Next scheduled Skype Conference Call: TBD
  • HFOSS Coordination Chat group - ping mark.prutsalis on skype for an invite to the group - all group members will be called at the appointed time
• Notes from our 21 October 2010 Call
• Notes from our 27 July 2010 Call
• call audio from our 23 June 2010 Call
• Notes from our 7 June 2010 Call

• Sahana Eden demo site. Register for a login first, then:
  • Link to ticketing system with Ushahidi data
• Messaging Module Blueprint
• Sahana Eden API Documentation

• Ushahidi demo site.
  • Sample API Call: Get the latest 20 reports
  • Categories in interop instance ← 1st 48
  • Categories in live instance ← 73!
  • API Documentation

• 6.23.10 - working on adding haiti report data to the database (all PII have been removed)

• add UUID field to api output

• ISCRAM 2011 Interop Workshop Launch Page
• Interop Workshop Guidelines

• W3C EIIF Main Page
• W3C EIIF Charter
• W3C EIIF Directory of EM Systems
• W3C EIIF List of Interoperability Standards
• Public mailing list

• About EDXL-TEP and EDXL-TEC
• EDXL-TEP and EDXL-TEC Executive Summary
• Sahana Feedback on PFIF

• Ushahidi-Sahana Integration Scratchpad
• Working Notes from Previous Meetings & Calls
• Skype Conference Call Notes - May 24, 2010

• OSM Humanitarian Data Model: suggested base model
• UNSDI
• 2007-Humanitarian Spatial Model
• Another paper on a humanitarian model
• EDXL
• EDXL-HAVE
• EDXL-TEP and -TEC

• H-FOSS Code of Conduct
• H-FOSS Maturity Model

• Five Non-Technical Principles for Developing Information Systems
• User Oriented Design from Mekong ICT Conference
• InSTEDD: IT Without Software
• Standards and Codes of Conduct for Humanitarian Action:
  • Humanitarian Principles statement from UN OCHA World Humanitarian Day
  • UN OCHA/WEF Guiding Principles for Public-Private Collaboration for Humanitarian Action
  • The Sphere Project’s Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response
  • Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief
  • Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
  • Principles and Good Practice of Humanitarian Donorship
  • Six Principles for Gender Equality in Disasters
  • Statement of Commitment on Eliminating Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN and Non-UN Personnel
  • InterAction’s Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Standards
  • Global Hand standards
• Best Practices for Philanthropic Private Sector Engagement in International Humanitarian Action
  • UN OCHA Business Contributions
  • The UN and Business
  • UN Global Compact
  • WHO Guidelines for Drug Donations
  • International Business Leaders Forum
  • Center for International Disaster Information
• Open Data Initiative from the World Bank

Timeline from sahanafoss

	One week until SahanaCamp NYC http://t.co/0T7cIelE Space still available register now http://t.co/iIKYXLCm #sahana #opensource About 6 days, 11 hours ago from SahanaFOSS (Sahana Foundation)
	Don't miss SahanaCamp NYC May 22-25 http://t.co/0T7cIelE Register now http://t.co/iIKYXLCm #sahana #opensource #eden About 1 week, 3 days ago from SahanaFOSS (Sahana Foundation)
	SSF Blog: Sri Lanka case study using Sahana and Freedom Fone presented in UK: The LIRNEasia and Sarvoday... http://t.co/qprziKdx #sahana About 1 week, 3 days ago from SahanaFOSS (Sahana Foundation)
	SahanaFOSS slides: Introduction to Sahana Eden - EMAG - May 2012: Introduction to Sahana Eden given to Emergenc... http://t.co/Jw1sxaNv About 2 weeks, 3 days ago from SahanaFOSS (Sahana Foundation)
	Attend SahanaCamp™ NYC May 22-25, 2012 learn how #sahana can help your organization to save lives: http://t.co/23lG0QWl #eden #opensource About 2 weeks, 4 days ago from SahanaFOSS (Sahana Foundation)

Timeline from ushahidi

	Congratulations to the Design Week NYC team - you are the Deployment of the Week: http://t.co/QahJ9HPH #nycdesignweek About 2 days, 8 hours ago from ushahidi (Ushahidi)
	On the Ushahidi blog Mapping avalanche incidents by capturing information from the crowd http://t.co/Ard0xKF4 About 2 days, 8 hours ago from ushahidi (Ushahidi)
	@NeilHorning Can you join us on skype, add a ticket to http://t.co/N86cDKlH or question on http://t.co/aUPjXef5 ? This way we can investigate About 2 days, 10 hours ago from ushahidi (Ushahidi)
	There's a fix for your deployments using Google Maps base layer. You can download the patched openlayers.js from: http://t.co/j8UYRBum About 2 days, 11 hours ago from ushahidi (Ushahidi)

Timeline from instedd

	@UNAIDS launches "Believe it. Do it." action campaign to help end new #HIV infections among children by 2015 http://t.co/MtpgCfqY #MCH About 6 days, 3 hours ago from InSTEDD (InSTEDD)
	Crowdsourcing game helps diagnose #infectious #diseases #globalhealth #innovation http://t.co/hirGIv7h About 6 days, 6 hours ago from InSTEDD (InSTEDD)
	Have a look at the new U.K section of #CrisisMappers http://t.co/UnDSSzu1 via @_JusTech_ About 6 days, 7 hours ago from InSTEDD (InSTEDD)
	Thanks for the support! @MlleBrooklyn @OSIntegrators About 6 days, 9 hours ago from InSTEDD (InSTEDD)
	10 Reasons to Celebrate the Health of Moms & Those Working to Improve #MaternalHealth #mothersday #MCH #MDG http://t.co/7mZZ1E8m About 1 week ago from InSTEDD (InSTEDD)

Timeline from hotosm

	We are looking for an intern to join our work in Indonesia for 3 weeks this June. http://t.co/aYjoNhhF #openstreetmap About 5 days, 10 hours ago from hotosm (Humanitarian OSM)
	Fully backed! But let's do more! Our first @kickstarter update http://t.co/LxH443zY About 6 days, 4 hours ago from hotosm (Humanitarian OSM)

Timeline from epiccolorado

	The Project EPIC Team received a great response at #CHI2012. Now we're going to get ready to deploy our No Place Like Home tool. About 1 week, 3 days ago from epiccolorado (Project EPIC)
	@katestarbird whoops yes, student research competition. I must have sdc on the brain ;) #CHI2012 About 1 week, 4 days ago from epiccolorado (Project EPIC)
	Looking forward to presenting our work today at CHI2012, No Place Like Home - Pet-to-family Reunification After Disaster. About 1 week, 6 days ago from epiccolorado (Project EPIC)
	Yay for Kate and for HCDE@UW! RT @hcdeUW: Please join us in welcoming @katestarbird to HCDE's faculty! http://t.co/MpWn46Nj About 1 month, 1 week ago from epiccolorado (Project EPIC)