About 45 good people came to our Recovery 2.0 meeting in San Francisco, called there by nothing more than a few blog posts and a desire to find ways to improve the internet’s response to the next disaster. I didn’t know what, if anything, we could accomplish in an hour and a half. At best, I hoped for a simple list of simple starting points and that’s what we got:
* We need a place online to gather and share information, needs, and solutions. That could be the Recovery2.0rg wiki — and the recovery2 tag.
* We need to work on standards and APIs for the tools and data bases people create to help in disasters. The peoplefinder standard is already underway and some of the folks from Yahoo at the meeting — who had experience on the ground in Houston and also at the Red Cross network operations center — are working on improvements. At a minimum, we need to do a better job harnessing the internet to help people find each other.
* We need to meet face-to-face with government, NGOs, and business to offer help and coordinate. There is a meeting in Washington on Oct. 17 about just that. Folks from this meeting will be there. Details on the wiki.
The meeting began with introductions, during which I stood there in awe of the internet and its ability to bring together such a group. Brian Oberkirch, who’d just started a weblog business, fled his home in Slidell and, sitting in Dallas, was desperate for news so he started his blog to bring the news to him and his community. He wanted us to make sure we don’t think this disaster is over as we try to prepare for the next one. One man started one of the first missing boards and when he was overloaded and Yahoo contacted him to serve it. The Yahoo people were there and so were people from Google. One man works in the Bay Area — which he called God’s theme park for natural disasters — to prepare for rescuing special-needs people in a disaster. Others came from charities that help in disasters. I finally got to meet Evelyn Rodriguez, the marketing blogger who happened to survive the tsunami and shared her experience so compellingly on her blog. I was glad that former FCC Chairman Michael Powell came (and, no, I didn’t make Howard Stern jokes, to answer the question some of you already asked) and talked about lessons learned reestablishing communications after 9/11. Scott Anderson, a Tribune Company online exec and blogger, said he wants to make sure that media companies are prepared as well (and learn from the amazing experiences of Nola.com, WWL, and WDSU in New Orleans); he plans to get this added to the Online News Association’s agenda and I’ll join in there. And on and on.
Then we spent some time listing key needs and characteristics of recovery 2.0: how we need to be even more concerned about preparedness than recovery; how systems need to be open; how we need to find ways to connect to the unconnected (e.g., the Skype virtual phone room idea); how it needs to connect with authorities; other characteristics: searchable, fluid, matchable, swarmable, transparent, trustworthy, discoverable, accountable, tested… and more. We ended up with many words describing what it needs to be.
But, of course, there is no “it.” There is no one system or authority or organization. This is the distributed internet, where people’s best efforts will pop up everywhere. The real goal is, as I described here, to get us to communicate and swarm better around needs, around the best replies, and around making the best better.
Thanks again to John Battelle and company for providing the space at Web 2.0. And thanks to Greg Burton for creating and managing the wiki and to Ross Mayfield for contributing it. And thanks to everyone who came — passing up the siren calls of Web 2.0 cocktail parties — and who blogged about it.
Web 2.0 needs to rest on an tangible measure that reflects the aggregate people behind it. To expand, we need a “Virtual Voting ATM” certified by an independent third party.
For instance, 60 million people with physical addresses can register and receive a PIN in the mail where they can support issues with a vote or vote derivative. Government should be run in this manner entirely. Congress has become a failed concept of old. It’s time to reform our Congress through technology. The idea of 500 congressman in DC determining the lives of 300 Million is absurd. We are past that.
If the “Virtual Voting ATM” were realized, we would have the most powerful connected real-time network conceivable. It’s completely feasible. We desperately need Democracy 2.0.
Can someone explain how this idea I propose is utenable or lacks utility.
[...] Following my experience working with Bill Callahan and others in the Emergency Community Computer Center at the Cleveland Covention Center, I’ve been very interested in what would come out of Recovery 2.0 this weekend. Jeff Jarvis has been blogging the hell out of the concept and posts a wrap-up this evening about what was done. [...]
[...] Check out the original blog post here: http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/10/09/14/ [...]
A video of Jeff’s presentation on Recovery 2.0 given at the Web 2.1 BrainJam is up Tagami. Warning – the video is stored at blip.tv, and loads pretty slowly – it’s 48 meg.
[...] He also pointed out the three prerequisites for effective swarming, using Recovery 2.0 as an example: [...]
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[...] After Business 2.0, Web 2.0, and Indiana Jones 4.0, we now have Recovery 2.0, which — contrary to what you might believe — is not a recovery camp for people addicted to add version numbers behind pretty much anything that doesn’t need versioning. Know what we need? We need Versions 2.0, a fully Ajaxed, distributed, and open, collaborative platform for grassroots citizen efforts, in which we can catalogue what’s already been elevated to 2.0, so we don’t forget to up the version numbers to Three Zip for the next hype cycle. [...]
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[...] Brian Oberkirch became a national figure last year when he covered the Hurrican Katrina disasater real time on his blog, slidell.weblogswork.com. The blog was linked to heavily by bloggers and news sites looking for the latest news on what was happening. Doc Searls linked over and over, and Jeff Jarvis, Fred Wilson, Tom Evslin, Business Week, The Washington Post and others also linked. The Slidell hurricane blog was an important resource for people during the crisis, and is an imported historical document going forward. [...]
[...] Other Recovery 2.0 context: Jeff Jarvis’ call to convene and his Report of get-together. September & October, 2005. Tags: recovery2, recovery 2.0 [...]
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