Japan Crisis Mapping: Fluent Japanese Speakers/Writers Volunteers NeededJapan is experiencing one of the greatest challenges in its history. In order to assist in monitoring the crisis and to provide information to those in support, fluent Japanese speakers/writers are needed to translate the large volume of incident reports submitted daily for geographic mapping within the “sinsai.info” platform (http://www.sinsai.info/ushahidi/index.php/?l=en_US). Some of this information is used by the Google PeopleFinder service to provide real-time assistance to those most in need.
The Sinsai.info platform is a deployment of software provided by Ushahidi, a non-profit technology company that specializes in developing free and open source software for crowdsourcing, visualization, and interactive mapping. Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili) has assisted in several crisis mapping events including the Kenya elections, the Haitian earthquake, and recently during the ChristChurch earthquake in New Zealand.
If interested, please contact Stephen Davenport (sdavenport@dgfoundation.org) at the Development Gateway to arrange a time to help.
Posted by: Kiyomi Saito Class of ‘81
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