2015 May MIT

Date: May 9+10

Location: MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA

Registration Link: http://humtechinteract.eventbrite.com

Universe of Topics

Data Collection

• What's the good, bad, and ugly of data collection
• how do we handle privacy/security in high-vulnerability times?
• Data from community should be usable by the community
• How to make it easier for different tech to work together

Adoption

• How technology can improve coordination after a disaster
• how to get people excited about tech for manageing data
• how do we share canvasing data and keep it secure?
• how do we bake consent culture into disaster and humanitarian efforts?

Local/External

• How can communities hold responders/NGOs/etc accountable?
• When is a good time to leave the disaster area as a humanitarian?
• How to better support local info responders? (eg Kathmandu Living Lab)?
• scale systems while keeping them personal
• How might we learn from local populations in a state of emergency

Resilience

• How to make info resilience (lists of NGOs, shelters, existing communities) normal everywhere?
• How can we be proactive about disasters rather than reactive
• Lessons learned from response to Ebola Crisis in West Africa
• Best methods to teach people
• how to encourage people to get training before a disaster instead of volunteering after a disaster
• Breaking down resilience and how that term is carried out
• How to keep attention for long-term needs
• Looking at topics through the lends of urban planning and city infrastructure

Local capacity and volunteers

• For-profit social good vs nonprofit/humanitarian
• how formal and informal groups can work together
• Is it possible to support frontline communities without being disruptive?
• ways to teach/trigger curiosity
• Better/more efficient tech for first responders (EMT/Police/Fire)

Bandwidth

• How to improve connecti ity after a disaster
• How do we get info to affected people in low bandwidth environments (eg SMS)?

Security

• How to hack-proof wireless tech
• Systematic support for targets of cyberstalking?
• how to reduce cost of forensic analysis of hacked IT equipment

Visualization

• Best way to display information and data
• What is the role of simulation and tech like Oculus Rift?
• What is the user journey of an emergency (1 day, 1 week, 1 month in)

Spectrogram

• Philanthropy isn't sustainable
• We have all the tech. We need to solve the problems at hand
• Private companies should be responsible for assisting in emergencies
• We already have enough tech solutions
• People are not comfortable enough with technology to use it in stressful/emergency situations

Discussion Topics/Breakouts

• Data and Ethics:
• Occupy Sandy:
• Data Standards:
• Template for HotWash:
• Public Labs and Consent:
• Online Safety:
• Consent:

Projects

• Frontline communities holding responders accountable

Things to Peruse Further

• Games to prepare for disaster:
• Guide for interacting with frontline communities: (find or create)
• Local organization list and reviews:
• Local organization identification at the global level methodology:
• Template/questionaire for After Action report to be made during deployment:
• Who What Where for virtual and coordinating responders:
• Resilience with respect to fragile infrastructure
• Application / promotion of consent frameworks

Accountability mechanisms between frontline communities and responders -- do they exist? Should we make them?

• External NGOs 'helping' and then leaving without leaving ongoing support is disruptive
• Citizen-centric data model