For the last few months I have been involved with Crisis Commons, the CrisisWiki team and Crisis Camps all over the world to help create this network of dark sites ready to go live as needed. Within 24 hours of most disasters we are able to get a detailed resource site up and shared.
Here's one example of a recent site that went live:
In each of these sites we look to share:
- Key programmers, players, media sharing team
- Organizations leading up various aspects of the situation
- Where to make donations and what is needed
- How to help from afar and how to NOT HELP locally
- Key tags to use across all social media
- Simple URLs to share for information
This is what this looks like for Haiti:
And here's our blanket tweet of how this works (later translated into many languages):
CrisisCommons: crowdsourcing crisis information, helping disaster affected communities through technology, translation and time. Online and at CrisisCamps. (139 characters)
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