Kaltura for Haiti, humanitarian identity, orphanage, Haiti Voices, etc

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Sat, 01/30/2010 - 02:03
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greetings -

An interesting concept has come up in the recent *torrent* of activity in 'Crisiscommons', as per: www.crisiscommons.org, to use Kaltura as a way to crowdsource video annotation within structured Drupal workflow. The overall concept is to have officials have a camera rolling when people enter the refugee camps and/or clinics in Haiti, have them stand in front of the camera, state their name, who they are looking for, and other important information. This in turn would get chopped up into segments, and farmed out to Internet volunteers to annotate/translate/transcribe, and integrated with the Personfinder database, as per: http://www.crisiscommons.org/FRS, and other important sources the Internet volunteers determine the info should get routed to. Ditto for the Haiti orphan project.

Are they any people knowledgable in Kaltura listening that are interested? we are just bootstrapping, but all recognize the potential...

Thanks!
Chris Nicholas

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Sat, 01/30/2010 - 04:31
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http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/index.php?title=.php&title=UN_Spider_Map/D...

http://groups.google.com/group/crisis-workflows-

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Sun, 02/14/2010 - 07:45
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still looking for volunteers to help me actually do something...

Chris
ps. - from this afternoon..."IDP" = "indigenous displaced persons"
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Rene Jean-Jumeau wrote:

I'm Rene JEAN-JUMEAU. Thrust into the position of coordinator for the Haitian Government's Information Center during following the disastrous 1/12 earthquake. Working out of the Prime Minister's Office for the occasion, I am trying to coordinate the information from the different relief effort activites for the Haitian Government.

I got your contact info from Meryl Stone after meeting with Prem Ramaswami who was on mission in Port-au-Prince. Along with Pablo and Christiaan, we agreed to work together to promote effective tools to alleviate the crisis and the suffering in the aftermath of the quake.

The latest OCHA sitrep (#17) states about camp coordination and management that "a major gap is the lack of a common registration system for displaced people".

I am sure you have powerful resources on the ground here in Haiti. I have people from various groups (IDP sites, neighborhood associations, local government and municipalities as well as the Bureau of Civil Protection) all attempting to record data involving the IDP populations. There are two different haitian databases springing up with this data and I am sure that you are collecting pieces of the same information. How can we collaborate in order to put some order in the chaos?

I am work out of the DCPJ Police station next to the UN Log Base in Port-au-Prince. Cell phone#: +509-3461-5041. (Lines tend to be congested so please insist.)

Bes regards,

Rene

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