Collaboration in Disaster Response

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Collaboration in Disaster Response

• Problems, Methods, and Tools

Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP
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We create free and open-source softwarefor
collaboration toward collective action. We then
teach other people how to create it for
themselves.
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Refugee management
Katrina response
In our opinion, collaboration, in humanitarian
action is THE critical task
Cholera outbreak
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Questions in disaster response

• What information isnt getting to those who need
  it?

What field reports and alerts should come faster?
Which systems need to share information?
Which groups should be making more decisions
together?
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The answers to those questions reveal challenges

1. Cultural acceptance
2. Geo-referenced imagery
3. Languages and translation
4. Unreliable communications
5. Minimal Essential Data Sets
6. Complex System Assessments
7. Formal Decision Support
8. Rapid Assessment Consolidation
9. Emergent Strategic Collaboration
10. Consolidating Human-Animal-Environmental health
    impact

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We think this is what collaboration requires
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Collaboration tools assessment

• Problem
• Agencies cant (or wont) communicate effectively
  in crisis
• Requirements for the technical problem
• Software that is effective, free,
  standards-based, easy to use, sustainable,
  measurable, and thoroughly interoperable
• Specifications
• Must be considered with WHO, UNICEF, MoH, UCLA,
  OCHA, UNOSAT, ISDR, Relief Web and many more
• Development (at least at InSTEDD)
• Weve built four free and open-source tools as
  prototypes for improved collaboration in crisis.
  They fill gaps we perceived.
• Implementation
• beta evaluation in progress with all four in
  Southeast Asia
• ( fifth will appear on the web Tuesday )

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Contact me about anything

• Rasmussen_at_InSTEDD.org