Mapping NGOs in Action

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Mapping NGOs in Action

Sahana should be the main repository for organization status and contact info, eg

http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/or/office
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/or/organisation

To work with this data, see details at http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/

Please ask on IRC #sahana irc.freenode.net (http://www.sahana.lk/chat) immediately for authorization. We have adopted an ad-hoc policy of only permitting contributors who make themselves known.

For other ways to help the Sahana work, see:

http://bit.ly/sahana-haiti-todo

Most Sahana controllers support RESTful export in various formats: csv, xml, json. Eg:

Organisation Registry DB access:

http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/or/organisation.html
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/or/organisation.xml
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/or/organisation.json
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/or/organisation.csv

Points of interest (known in Sahana as locations) added to our situation map:

http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.html
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.georss
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.kml

Please read over this whole page and try to coordinate with Sahana before replicating the work.


Contents

Original Goal & Ideas

At the beginning of the day we sought to deliver some kind of CRM system covering organizations, and the individuals that work for them, that would allow people to connect across organizations. We hit a couple snags, and were not able to deliver this solution in one day. The data on individual organizations acting in Haiti that we consolidated is the best deliverable we were able to compile in one day.

Status: Finding NGOs who deliver Hospital Services

We are just about to go live with the Kapab Medical Situational Awareness tool. The goal is to get all the hospitals operating in Haiti Geotagged and on a map so that everyone can see where the current hospitals are operating, and where there is still a need for medical assistance.

If a city is interested, we need to go through the list of NGOs that are operating in Haiti, and determine which of them is possibly setting up and running hospitals. We want to get a list of them with their contact information so that we can start contacting them to ask if they would put their information into the Kapab system. The Wiki page for the NGOs list is here:

Mapping_NGOs_in_Action

The Spreadsheet is here:

NGO Spreadsheet

Again, what we are looking for is a list of all NGOs doing medical services in Haiti and their contact information. This might be a relatively small task in terms of going through that spreadsheet, but there may be other NGOs we can identify doing this. Here's another data set:

Haiti Voices Spreadsheet

The Data

OCHA Data with Areas of Aid

We're starting to move all of the entries from the OCHA Contact List with Aid Areas spreadsheet into Sahana. The spreadsheet now has a new field to mark if the data is in Sahana. - Phil.ashlock.us 16:49, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Since the data is stored in a Google Spreadsheet, it can be programmed against using Google's Spreadsheets APIs, or easily ported to another machine-readable storage system.

Spreadsheet Status

Data sources are:

Many organizations have been completely filled out -- 'x's mark what areas of relief an organization works in. Not all organizations have been researched -- those with some 'x's have. Twitter data & website should be complete for all organizations.

We may in the future be able to get information from Sahana on more organizations, and possibly even individuals based on culling MS Exchange records. A DC team member will update this wiki if that information can be released.

Future work

We foresee a couple ways for this to develop

  • A CRM covering both organizations and individuals with structured data about what they're working on, what they need, and what they have to offer. Also, building a CRM that can accept quickly and easily accept user contributions from the general Internet would set it apart from current offerings.
  • An application that connects this structured data, offers search functionality, recognizes potential matches of supplies & needs

Data from this resource could brought in as well: Comprehensive list of development organizations working in Haiti as of 2010 with contact information. PDF Download. Courtesy devdir.org. Users may download, copy and reprint information from this site for non-commercial purposes so long as the source is cited.


Project Team and Work Details

  • Project Manager: Noel Dickover, ndickover@gmail.com, @NoelDickover

, 703-231-3912

, pordal at gmail.com

Volunteer Team:

  • Name, @Twitter, Skype Name, Role

, N/A

, Research Team

, N/A 

(designer, data)
    • Gaggan B (JAVA dev + Mapping)
    • Kristina Katich, N/A, kristina.katich
    • Kara Reeve, @insolentcrush

, insolentcrush

    • Karla Ballard Twitter-OEInnovation
    • Mike Weaver, @MatinicusVH

, MatinicusVH, (drupal geek) matinicus61 at gmail.com

, skype: sophiabliu, Sophia.Liu@colorado.edu, Research, info about Haitian contacts

, research Collaboration Workspace:

Airplane Room


Testimonials/Feedback

This is an area where people using these resources can give feedback

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