sinsai.info opened less than four hours after the earthquake | Nikkei Crosstech (xTECH) 2011.08.18

  • “I don’t know if this will be useful, but I’ve set up a Ushahidi site anyway”… The message was posted to the mailing list of OpenStreetMap, a volunteer project to create maps that can be used and modified freely. The message was posted by Shusaku Azuma, a member of the project. Ushahidi is software that was used as a disaster information aggregation system during the Haiti and New Zealand earthquakes. It is freely available as open source software and can be used by anyone.

  • … The next day, sinsai.info, which was initially launched on a private server, was moved to the server of Georepublic Japan, which is headed by the current sinsai.info representative Haruyuki Seki, and the domain “sinsai.info” was acquired. We also called for cooperation through the mailing list and Twitter.

You’re 20 years old now, you’re 7 at this time. The importance of continuing to do this for 10 or 15 years


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