Fwd: content-wire : Citizen centric response to the Australia Fires

Brian, thanks for sharing
I have republished your post,  pasted below
I had a friend called Cameron in AU, We exchanged online twenty years ago
on various matters. but forgot his surname
PDM

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Content Wire, B.Hill, Thursday, 16 January 2020, 462 Words, Copyright ©
2020 Content Wire (Document CWRE000020200123eg1g0002t)

As a regular hackathon host, Brian Hill put together ausfirehack.info as a
rolling hackathon to try and catch the edge cases as they flew past in the
flurry of shout outs from affected communities. He has been progressively
building up a series of challenge topics for people to pile onto if they're
interested in formulating responses or digging deeper, and serve to prompt
some interesting emergency standards chats.

One of the most notable things that changed materially lately is the
increased weaponisation of social media platforms as a vector for
disinformation. It's a pervasive pattern we saw across a broad range of
fronts, which took some time for a select few media agencies to pick up on,
but by then the damage was done, and a counter-narrative embedded, which is
driving polarised views, making it harder to agree on commons that bind
people.

Brian attempted to capture some of the flavours into his challenges, but
welcomes input into thinking about how standards work can support
development of counter-measures to deliberate misinformation.

Crowdsourcing initiatives emerged ahead of formal agency responses, Brian
said. FindABed sprang to life, looking to connect fire evacuees with
willing hosts, CrisisApp emerged from that group as a larger volunteer
effort to aggregate + geolocate offers of help for people needing
resources. Both are still very much works in progress, which would benefit
from increasing alignment with standards bodies as everyone grapples with
better ways to rinse, lather, repeat and build on initial emergent
capability. Interestingly, the spirit of volunteering in both teams has
been driven in part by the frustration of cycle response times from state
bodies. We've had to explore how, in the face of platform ToS obligations,
we can deal with the glaringly obvious need to connect public domain calls
for help from individuals with services or generous individuals that can
help, in real time.

As someone who's worked in both private and public settings, Brian knows
how long it can take to scale up an initiative within government, but was
struck by the generosity of the tech community wanting to lean in and help
make a difference during this catastrophic fire season. I've seen good
friends lose everything, agencies get pushed past their capacity to service
demand and initiatives struggle with data modelling as demand outstripped
capacity for structured digital delivery. The work in Crisis App has been
bolstered by strong contributions from US based digital humanitarians who
crowdsourced responses in the last few destructive hurricane seasons. Many
lessons to reflect on as efforts move into recovery cycle and adapt their
stance to detect, surface and validate changing needs of fire affected
communities.

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