Various organizations are looking for hackers and others with skills (including data visualization, as the information seems to request) to help the victims of Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan that swept through the Philippines. Here are a few links where, if you have these skills, you may be able to help:
Sample tweet from micromappers.com to assist in Typhoon relief.
(Gathered from crisiscommons.org🙂
- Stand By Taskforce has been activated by UN OCHA through at least Nov. 10.
- A group at Geek List has been tasked by the Philippine Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office as well as by NGO on the ground to develop a number of projects. Right now they seem to have a good core of developers and are looking for project leaders, social media help, design help and, of course, more developers. Here’s the list of active projects and there is more info here they also have an open chatroom.
Other things you can do:
Go to : http://crowdcrafting.org/app/MM_ImageClicker/
[signoff icon=”icon-globe”]If you are available Saturday, November 16, 2013 in Washington DC, join this activity:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/crisiscamp-philippines-washington-dc-tickets-9289145083
“This Saturday (11/16) we will gather at the 1776 coworking space to map,write code, and take part in any other remote activities that we can to support the ongoing response efforts in the Philippines”[/signoff]
