COMRADES EU Project Overall Presentation
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The Comrades project, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme, aims to empower communities during crises through an online platform for reporting emergencies. It enables citizens to share urgent information and facilitates responders in managing and processing these reports effectively. The project's objectives include developing a resilient socio-technical system to assess and monitor crisis situations and enhancing community response capabilities.
COMRADES EU Project Overall Presentation
- 2. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union 7 Richter Earthquake CiEzens hunt for informaEon, to grasp what is happening, to learn where to go, and how to get or offer help. • Phone network unstable • SMS works • wifi limited
- 3. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Messages start spreading about an online pla1orm called COMRADES set-‐up by Ushahidi ac?vists, which ci?zens can send crisis reports to, online or via anonymous SMS.
- 4. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Dozens of responders flog to the COMRADES plaPorm to help process, map, and translate them Thousand reports arrive per hour
- 5. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union COMRADES: • quickly filters the ciEzen reports as they arrive • removes uninformaEve and irrelevant ones • points out unreliable sources • picks up, and alerts to, several lone messages requesEng urgent help, sent by people trapped under rubble or in need of urgent medical help • extracts, groups, and monitors unfolding emergency micro-‐ events.
- 6. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Project ObjecEves COMRADES aims to empower communiEes with intelligent socio-‐technical soluEons to help them reconnect, respond to, and recover from crisis situaEons. • Main objecEves: – Extract the socio-‐technical requirements for collecEve resilience plaPorms – AutomaEcally idenEfy, process, assess, and monitor emergency events in distributed communi?es and social media sources – Measure the informa?veness and validity of crisis informaEon – Develop the intelligent COMRADES pla1orm for community resilience – Deploy COMRADES to support real and distributed communi?es during live crises events
- 7. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Work Diagram
- 8. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union ConsorEum Knowledge Media insEtute, The Open University, UK www.open.ac.uk iHub Ltd, Kenya www.ihub.co.ke Universitetet i Agder, Norway www.uia.no/en University of Sheffield, UK www.sheffield.ac.uk Government to You, Belgium www.gov2u.org
- 9. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Contact Dr Harith Alani (co-‐ordinator) Knowledge Media insEtute The Open University [email protected] hap://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/harith/ www.comrades-‐project.eu