Meet the IDCE DisasterTech Hackathon Winners! In August, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Since then, the world has seen an explosion in the development and adoption of mobile technology and new tools, enabling us to now experience disasters first-hand. Through the eyes and ears of those more »
Second Place: Mondyu Garvoye, Sam Ndiwe, and Marilyn LaForce When our team started the Hackathon, we had decided to start by creating an App Mission statement. Our objective was to create an app that could be used by Emergency Management personnel in the event of another disaster. This app would have to interact with social more »
First Place: Wade Kodrin, Sergio Castro, and Hector Chapa The team analyzed the current problems with using social media as a tool during disasters and boiled it down to a spectrum of issues: too few users that didn’t give enough data or too many users that gave so much data that it would take too more »
#DisasterTech Hackathon: Innovative Solutions On February 7 & 8, the NISC supported the IDCE #DisasterTech Hackathon, which facilitated the development of multiple platform-agnostic open technology solutions to enhance public safety and disaster response collaboration, engagement, and decision-making. The NISC provided practitioner input through an introductory video from our Chair, Chief Charles Werner, describing the role more »
Register for the webcast. The NISC has partnered with the Capacity Building Webinar Series and the International Disaster Conference and Expo (IDCE) to broadcast the first 90 minutes of the #DisasterTech Hackathon. The broadcast will be available on a social collaboration space where you can connect and work with others throughout the conference. Join the more »
We are excited to be involved in the 2015 International Disaster Conference & Expo (IDCE) #DisasterTech hackathon (February 7-8) and conference (February 10-12). The IDCE hackathon will facilitate the development of multiple platform-agnostic, open technology solutions to enhance public safety and disaster response collaboration, engagement, and decision-making. We will provide practitioner input through an introductory more »
