COMRADES EU Project Brochure
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The Comrades project, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program, aims to create an open-source platform for community resilience and social innovation during crises. It focuses on helping citizens gain real-time situational awareness and foster self-organization within communities affected by disasters. By utilizing various communication channels, the project seeks to connect those in need of assistance with citizens willing to help, enhancing overall community resilience.
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- 1. Collective Platform for Community Resilience & Social Innovation During Crises www.comrades-project.eu This project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 687847 ConsortiumContact Us Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK iHub Ltd, Kenya University of Sheffield, UK Universitetet i Agder, Norway Government to You, Belgium Project Coordinator: Knowledge Media institute, Open University (UK) Project Start: 1 January 2016 Duration: 36 months Call: H2020-ICT-2015 Topic: ICT-10-2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation Type of action: Research & Innovation Actions (RIA) www.comrades-project.eu communication@ comrades-project.eu @comradesproject COMRADES project @comradesproject
- 2. General Objective What’s in it for me? Who is involved? How to be involved?How will it work?Specific Objectives The COMRADES project works with local partners to create an open-source, community resilience platform. Support to set up and use a platform which uses cutting edge technology for helping citizens to get a consistent, coherent understanding of the events around them in real time and to exchange intelligence when their community is severely hit by natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes. Information will be gathered via multiple channels such as social media, text messaging, and vari- ous other channels by the COMRADES platform. A crisis map will be created where citizens can view and share information about the crisis, to increase their resilience and situational awareness. COMRADES goes beyond the mere gathering of information, by assisting communities in getting self-organized for more efficient response to, and recover from crisis. The platform keeps the citizens well connected during emergencies, and matches those in need of help with fellow citizens who can provide the requested assistance. COMRADES will engage with three types of specific communities that are core to effective resilience efforts: 99 Activists (platform deployers): individuals and groups of people who set up instances of the Ushahidi platform; 99 Responders: communities that organise and coordinate resources and provide expertise when the Ushahidi platform is deployed; 99 Reporters: communities who report on crisis. The COMRADES project will actively approach differ- ent communities and citizens from around the globe by involving them at two levels: Co-Creation: Engage multiple communities in the requirements, design, and evaluation tasks; Use: Promote and support the deployment and use of the platform to empower citizens and communi- ties to improve their resilience. The functions that COMRADES platform plans to include are: 99 Quickly filtering citizens’ reports as they arrive from social media and mobile texts; 99 Removing uninformative and irrelevant ones; 99 Identifying unreliable sources; 99 Picks up, and alerts to several lone messages requesting urgent help during a crisis; 99 Extracts, groups, and monitors unfolding emergency micro-events. 99 To automatically identify, process, assess, and monitor emergency events; 99 To measure the informativeness and validity of crisis information; 99 To develop the intelligent COMRADES platform for community resilience; 99 To deploy COMRADES to support local communities and digital responders in the response to and recovery from crises; 99 To support and foster community resilience as a continuous process. The platform will be based on Ushahidi solution: a common platform for crisis mapping, developed in collaboration with iHub.