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Al-Jazeera’s Crisis Map of the Snowstorm Emergency in the Balkans
In the Fall of 2011, Al-jazeera partnered with the SBTF to produce a crisis map in response to the earthquake in Van, Turkey. Earlier this month, our colleagues at Al-jazeera got in touch with the SBTF again, this time seeking support for their crisis map of the snowstorm emergency in the Balkans. They were in the middle [...]
Updates from OCHA Colombia Floods Deployment
[Blog post by Virginia Brussa, SBTF Regional Coordinator for South & Central America] According to SIGPAD, the second rainy season affected 1,193,956 people of which more than 33,000 were affected in January 2012 alone. UN OCHA Colombia requested support from the SBTF in December 2011 to map the massive flooding triggered by the second season of [...]
Meet a Mapster: Understanding Volunteer Motivations
[This is a guest blog post by Isaac Griberg, Social Media Officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and MA Social Media student at Birmingham City University] Dear Mapsters, First of all, kudos for all the work you guys are doing at the intersection of GIS and relief work. I believe the humanitarian community [...]
The Spirit of the SBTF: A Global Network of Self-Starters
I’ve recently been reflecting on what makes the global SBTF network possible. Not surprisingly, it all has to do with active volunteers. They are the ones who make this global initiative what it is. Indeed, we are all volunteers and have other professional, academic, personal etc., commitments. But we find and make the time to [...]
A Review of SBTF Deployments in 2011
It’s a new year and the Core SBTF Team is busy developing its roadmap for 2012. We have recently expanded the Core Team with experienced volunteers who have done phenomenal work on previous SBTF deployments. We are also updating our Ning platform, blog, Facebook page, etc. For example, we recently added a Coordinators Page and Deployments Page [...]
Psychological Support during SBTF Crisis Mapping Deployments
[This is a guest blog post by Maggie Jarmolowski, our dedicated SBTF Counselor] “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Counseling, Psychological, Resources, Support, Therapy, Trauma 3 Comments
Double Activation of the Standby Task Force: WHO-Libya & OCHA-Colombia
The Standby Volunteer Task Force has just been activated by two major partners: the World Health Organization (WHO) in Libya and the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Colombia. WHO-Libya: This activation is not in response to an acute emergency but rather related to preparedness and health system status in Libya. The goal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Activation, Colombia, Facilities, Floods, Health, Libya, OHCA, UN, WHO Leave a comment
The [unexpected] Impact of the Libya Crisis Map and the Standby Volunteer Task Force
[Guest blog post by Andrej Verity. Andrej is an Information Management Officer at UN-OCHA in Geneva with a focus on both leading OCHA's collaboration with the Volunteer & Technical Communities and supporting OCHA's information management staff around the world. In 2010, Andrej deployed to both the Haiti earthquake and the Pakistan floods. In March 2011, Andrej lead OCHA's collaboration with [...]
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Who are we really? Stats on the SBTF Membership
The SBTF Membership currently comprises 700+ volunteers from 70+ countries around the world. But who are we really? I finally made some time to find out by reading through every single bio on our Ning platform—a total of 720 when this blog post went to press. Volunteers are invited to write whatever they’d like in [...]
On Standby Doesn’t Mean Always-On: An Update on the SBTF