CrisisCorps

Contents 1 Crisis Corps 1.1 Problem 1.2 Our Solution 1.3 Feature List 2 Documentation 2.1 User-facing 2.2 Internal 2.2.1 Use Cases 2.2.2 Application Design 2.2.3 Implementation 3 Contributors 4 Special Thanks 5 Resources 6 Related Solutions

[edit] Crisis Corps

[edit] Problem

During times of crisis, needs arise for crowdsourcing tasks to assist with efforts in the field. These efforts include contributing to maps, identifying resources, Currently, driving people to these crowdsourcing tasks to complete them efficiently can be a challenge.

[edit] Our Solution

Create a Facebook presence to build a community that can be called upon in times of crisis to accomplish these tasks.

[edit] Feature List

1. Facebook Users Sign Up
   1. Users enter in their abilities
   2. Display example of how service works to inform about process
2. Recruiting Help for a Project & Tasks
3. Listing of current projects
   1. Rating of applicable individual skillsets to project
   2. Deadline if any
4. Alerting
   1. Different levels of alerts:
      1. Urgent Projects
      2. Current Projects
      3. Favorite Projects
5. Community
   1. Questions and Threads
   2. Stories
6. User Reputation
   1. Badges
   2. Completed work units?

Specifics

1. Abilities of users should follow a standard format (us or Konbit?)
2. Make sure service usage example is easy to find; we want users to be able to get to this if they haven't used us for awhile.
3. Rating of match of individual to project should be calculated based upon skills indicated by individual and skills requested by task issuer

Visualizations

• Other users with same skills

[edit] Documentation

[edit] User-facing

Documentation for Organizations using the service & API

[edit] Internal

Release & planning roadmap
Facebook App & Welcome Page Copy

[edit] Use Cases

CrisisCorpsUseCase01 - NGO Needs Urgent Translation of SMS messages from French to English
CrisisCorpsUseCase02
CrisisCorpsUseCase03 - Crisis Corps Administrator Functionality
CrisisCorpsUseCase04 - Website Functionality
CrisisCorpsUseCase05 - API Functionality
CrisisCorpsUseCase06 - App Functionality

[edit] Application Design

CrisisCorpsApplicationDesign
WhiteBoardImages
Job/Role Assignments
CrisisCorps/NeededFunctionality

[edit] Implementation

CrisisCorps/DataAccess

[edit] Contributors

• Nigel Snod
• Alex Schoof
• Sachin Kamboj
• Alex Quinn
• Danny Iachini
• Jay Baker
• Aliou Sylla
• Alex Parker
• Brian Ghigiarelli
• Montana Harkin

[edit] Special Thanks

• Brett Horvath

[edit] Resources

• Github: http://github.com/harking/crisis-corps
• Alex's Github repo: http://github.com/a5an0/crisis-corps
• Launchpad project/bug tracking: https://launchpad.net/crisiscorps
• Launchpad team: https://launchpad.net/~crisiscorps
• Konbit: http://konbit.media.mit.edu/
• Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127437037277536&ref=ts
• App URL: http://apps.facebook.com/crisiscorps/
• App Backend: http://crisiscorpsapp.appspot.com/
• Django 1.2.1 on AppEngine: http://www.deck.cc/django_1.2_on_google_app_engine.html
• http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Notifications.sendEmail
• Amazon Mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
• Open Street Map (OSM): http://www.openstreetmap.org/
• Google Web Toolkit: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• Google App Engine: http://code.google.com/appengine/

[edit] Related Solutions

• TechAid
• http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/CrisisCommons_Roledex - not started
• http://wiki.crisiscommons.org - CrisisCommons and CrisisCamps
• UNOCHA has a jobs page, and might be amenable to linking to this solution for finding crisis volunteers