Open Relief

= Open, modular, information solutions for disaster relief

URL = http://www.openrelief.org/

Description

"Planning disaster relief efforts is like trying to see through fog. OpenRelief is a project to develop better communications tools for disaster relief efforts: the tools to clear the fog.

OpenRelief solutions will gather critical information for relief workers on the ground. This information will help the right aid to get to the right places at the right time.

OpenRelief uses crowd-sourcing for rapid development, improvement and distribution. We are building a community to test and share our solutions around the world.

We are creating a robot plane to investigate and map disaster zones. This robot is small enough to be launched from footpaths and smart enough to recognize roads, people and smoke. It uses sensors to measure weather and radiation. The information it collects can easily be shared with disaster management systems like Sahana Eden.

We are currently focused on the development and release of the robot plane and its sensors. Later we will develop more tools for situation mapping, restoring communications and coordinating recovery efforts. The goal is to have a range of solutions to support disaster relief."