Crisis camp
Crisis camps are like BarCamps for IT professionals and software developers. They come together to help during big disasters such as earthquakes, floods, or hurricanes. Common projects include building social networks to find missing people, mapping damaged areas, and listing items still needed like food and clothing.
These camps often rely on mobility, use the Internet to coordinate, need many volunteers, and create new places for people to communicate when regular channels aren’t available. They usually have free or cheap attendance and an on-the-spot agenda created by the attendees, which is why they’re called an “unconference.”
EdCamp, a user-made gathering for teachers, was inspired by BarCamp. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, many crisis camps formed worldwide, sometimes named Crisis Camp Haiti. The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami also mobilized the Crisis Commons network, with coordination by Japanese students in U.S. universities. The first Crisis Camp was held in Washington, DC, on June 12–14, 2009.
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