LinuxCon Japan 2011 | OpenForum

"OpenForum: The Power of Collaboration in a Crisis"

This unique forum which will raise awareness of how collaborative activities can create value to society, and in particular how it helps people in crisis and disaster situations. We will show examples of open source communities such as Ushahidi, Open Street Map, Hack for Japan, and Linux. Through this forum, attendees can gain an understanding of how these communities work and how they (attendees) can participate in these communities whether that participation is through development, translation, documentation etc.

The event is open to all LinuxCon Japan attendees, and will take place on Tuesday, May 31st at Pacifico Conference Center from 13:30 to 18:00.

You can choose to add the Open Forum when you register for LinuxCon Japan or if you are already registered, you can login to your existing registration and add the option to attend the forum.

Agenda (Tuesday, May 31st - Pacifico Conference Center)

Session Abstracts

The Power of Collaboration in Crisis
This talk is going to be a brief introduction of the concept of this forum. By using the example of Linux, collaborative activities can create values to society.

Action by Yokohama Towards the Earthquake
This short report will describe about the the actions by the city of Yokohama to relieve the victims from the earthquake in the northern part of Japan.

Sinsai.info: Crowdsourcing Disaster Response/Reconstruction Platform and the Next
There are many eye catch activities behind the huge disaster in east Japan at 311, especially in area of social media, open source software and open collaboration/community. They archive tremendous speed and development effort and support disaster response by IT. Sinsai.info is one of the most famous service in such area. Through my presentation, you will be able to understand the secret of why they were able to launch the service within such a short period of time, run such a high speed in this presentation in the view point what enabler technology they use and what is a key for success. The day 6/11 is a mile stone where 2000 hours passes from 311 disaster. He will show a direction of sinsai.info and crowdsourcing open data/open collaboration.

Changing the World, One Map at a Time
Maps are changing our world in ways we could hardly imagine just a few years ago? This presentation will explain why, giving real world examples ranging from Haiti and Egypt to Libya and Japan. Today's maps are live maps that combine crowds and clouds to drive social change. The presentation will highlight the latest in the field of crisis mapping including the application of check-in's.

Hack for Japan
During the time of crisis, are there anything developers can do? Through this talk I am going to introduce the actions taken by a group of volunteer developers call Hack For Japan.