CENTRA
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| http://www.globalcentra.org/ |
| Collaborators: ACIS, CECEA, IVO |
| Summary: CENTRA stands for Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications and refers to a partnership and evolving framework for collaborations amongst research centers, institutes and laboratories across the world. The founding members of CENTRA are the Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) laboratory of the University of Florida with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA, the Center of Excellence for Cyber-Enablement of Applications (CECEA) of the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) of Taiwan with support from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Taiwan, and the ASEAN International Virtual Organization (IVO) funded by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies (NICT), Japan. |
CrisisCommons
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| http://crisiscommons.org |
| Collaborators: Heather Blanchard (Co-Founder); Noel Dickover (Co-Founder); Andrew Turner (Co-Founder) |
| Summary: CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development. CrisisCommons is a global community of volunteers from technology, crisis response organizations, government agencies, and citizens that are working together to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and improve resiliency and response before a crisis. CrisisCommons actively supports CrisisCamp, a barcamp event, which seeks to connect a global network of volunteers who use creative problem solving and open technologies to help people and communities in times and places of crisis. |
Random Hacks of Kindness
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| http://rhok.cc/ |
| Collaborators: Elizabeth Sabet, SecondMuse |
| Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK): a community of developers, geeks and tech-savvy do-gooders around the world, working to develop software solutions that respond to the challenges facing humanity today. This project is a joint initiative among Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, NASA and the World Bank. |
Understanding Risk
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| https://understandrisk.org/ |
| ACIS, CECEA, IVO |
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Summary: Understanding Risk (UR) is a community of global experts in the field of disaster risk assessment. UR community members share knowledge and experience, collaborate and discuss innovation and best practice in risk assessment. This Community convenes every 2 years at UR Forums. |