Crowd-Sourcing Open Gov Data within 10 Days (Taiwan)

TH Schee @scheeinfo Open Government Data Camp

11.2011 Warsaw, Poland

Deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan recorded history.

TRUE STORY

2,777mm (109.3 inches), surpassing previous record of 1,736mm (68.3 inches)

9 Days after the storm, 2100 soldiers were dispatched to elds

Lack of government public communications strategy and media hype exacerbated public concerns and further delayed disaster relief.

http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/les/reliefweb_pdf/briengkit-7eb3053cb501fed93266e7812b84ffb6.pdf

In hope of getting better information, people turn to self help on web.

Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Ilha-Formosa/1339213

 Every 100 people have 120 phones 85% households have access of 100+ TV
channels

75% of population have access to web Every 300 people will gets one surveillance
camera in New Taipei City in 2015
Highly Saturated and Huge Data Consuming Economy

TV?
Source: ETTV

Overload? Correctness? Gotcha?

24 http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/warning/WPPS_REG_Fcst24hPrecipImage.htm http://rdc28.cwb.gov.tw/data.php 100 http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/observe/rainfall/top100.htm http://qpesums.cwb.gov.tw http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/observe/rainfall/area2.php http://south.cwb.gov.tw/index1.php http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/observe/webcam/spot_images.htm http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/observe/rainfall/topmax.htm

You ask people to read this?

http://192.83.177.110/cwbclient/ http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/warning/WPPS_REG_ WindReal.htm http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/observe/rainfall/hq.htm http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/observe/rainfall/hk.htm

TV / RADIO

TEAM

ETTV CTV SAHLIH

GOV
TAINAN EOC

HQ APPLE DAILY LIBERTY TIMES UDN

DATA

NEWSPAPER

KH PINGT UNG

MEDIA

WEB / SNS Meetings Briengs Documents Databases Personnels

YAHOO Google MSN YAM

We're given a NOD.

EOC
Pingtung
Bureau A Bureau C Bureau B

Kaohsiung
Bureau F

- 67 core members - 1000+ websites - thousands of volunteers

Bureau A

1.1m

Bureau C Bureau B Bureau D Bureau A

Tainan

Bureau C

2.7m

Bureau B

Bureau E

1.8m

Aggregating disaster information from Twitter, Plurk, BBS and partnered websites Scrapping data from government websites, recycle and rebuild data that are "users-oriented" Redistributing correct information through traditional and new media channels in highly rened format Dispatching trained volunteers to local and central EOC (emergency operation center), and live there

Meticulouly Formatted Messages

08181949 [] []1 09:30 #Morakot #Kaohsiung #eoc 08181630 []17 http://0rz.tw/rWWDk #taiwanoods #Morakot #Tainan

08181123[][] #taiwanoods #Morakot #eocpc

Aftermath
The President mentioned us in New Year
Resolution Speech

Halt our operation after 10 days Forked the model and apply for grants Kicked off many open data projects

Behind the Teams

Founded by bloggers in late 2005 Hosts quite a lot events to raise digital awareness

Taiwan Blogger BoF Global Chinese Blogger Award Punch Party (Barcamp) Puncar Wikimania 2007 Taiwan Politics 2.0 Conference

schee@fertta.com