This, page the Pakistan Crisis Commons is an attempt to provide a central home for gathering and disseminating Commons resources (resources held in common by the community) on emergent/crisis situations in Pakistan.
The process of linking up with the global Crisis Commons effort is underway and any coordination is welcome.
Such resources include:
Long-Term[]
- Pakistan Crisis Wiki is a sub-site on WikiPakistan (this site) that is focused on collecting, documenting, and helping organize resources for handling emergent situations in Pakistan. This has been going since the Earthquake in 2005 and addresses other crisis/emergent situations
- http://helppakistan.wikispaces.com/
- Twitter Tags
- Twitter tag for helping on issues related to Pakistan: #helppakistan
- Twitter tag for Pakistan in general: #Pakistan
Currently Emergent[]
- NB: For more complete lists on a specific situation, please see Pakistan Crisis Wiki and other resources listed above.
- Floods 2010, the pages on this site devoted to information gathering and dissemination about the Flood situation in Pakistan in the summer of 2010.
- http://pakrelief.crowdmap.com/ an uShahidi installation for "Flood Incident Reporting in Pakistan" devoted to information gathering and dissemination about the Flood situation in Pakistan in the summer of 2010.
- http://www.citizensofpakistan.org/pakistan-flood-relief/ a "Pakistan Floods 2010 Information and Relief Wiki" hosted by the 'CitizensofPakistan.org devoted to information gathering and dissemination about the Flood situation in Pakistan in the summer of 2010.
Global Technological Activism[]
Groups[]
- Crisis Commons
- Crisis Wiki
- Random Hacks of Kindness:
- Geeks without Borders
- Crisis Mappers
Software/Tools[]
- uShahidi
- Sahana Foundation: