hack4japan is a series of ideathon and hackathon events for Japan Tsunami relief and recovery effort. So far several meetings, ideathons and hackathons were held in March both online in English/Japanese and offline (Kyoto, Okayama, Tokushima, Fukuoka and Fukushima) in Japanese. The detail of the first event is here.
The next meeting will be held in Sendai city (Miyagi), Wakamatsu city (Fukushima),Tokyo in Japanese during 21st and 22nd May, and we will be also hosting a satellite event in London (UK) in English on 22nd May.
You could either work alone or with other participants. If you already have existing projects, please feel free to use this space to find contributors or exchange information with other participants.
You can attend either or both event.
- Time: 10am ~ 5pm (local time)
- Location = Tentatively at New Bamboo, but the venue may change depending on the number of participants.
- Online form for 22nd May (Sun)
- There are lots of data related to earthquake, tsunami, and radiation. Can you make better visualisation or mash them up to create anything new?
- What happened in Japan could potentially happen in your area (reference: list of nuclear power plant around the world http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/18/nuclear-reactors-power-stations-world-list-map). Can you research how your area could cope with if something like Japan tsunami and power plant problem happens around your area?
- Investigate open source disaster response related tools and see if it fits to solve problems in Japan.
- Some of these open source disaster response related tools communities are struggling to maintain the quality of code. Can you contribute your software craftsmanship spirits to add test coverage or provide better documentation?
sinsai.info is an incident mapping service deployed 4 hrs after the earthquake. It currently has over 10,000 incident reports and it had over 1 million page view so far. It uses Usahidi crisis mapping tool which was deployed in Haiti, Libya and other crises. @makoto_inoue will give you brief introduction of how it is used in Japan.
Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system built with Python. Its localisation to Japan deployment (at http://www.sahana.jp ) is currently under active development. @franboon from Sahana foundation will be joining us for this hackathon.
- Infographics Roundup: 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
- Guardian has various dataset about Japan nuclear power plant
- MEXT(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) = Reading of environmental radioactivity level by prefecture, Time series data
- Environmental radioactivity and radiation information, json/xml updated every 10 min.
- Safecast is a website that aggregates radioactivity data from throughout the world in order to provide real-time hyper-local information about the status of the Japanese nuclear crisis.
- CrisisCommons Japan Data Profile
- Hyper cities Sendai = 700,000 tweets between March ~ April related to earthquake and tsunami were captured and visualised.
- Esri Japan Earthquake Tsunami map
- Google Crisis Response tools and resources
- Other available data from government (in Japanese)
[NOTE: They were offered for free during March hackathon. I have not confirmed whether they still offer for free]
- Tonchidot = Open Air for Publisher API. Free for hack4japan hackathon purpose.
- Cloudant Inc. = Free CouchDB & CouchApp hosting for hack4jp by Cloudant