Apps for Japan Project – creating a new public commons to help disaster recovery

“In order to tackle the unprecedented damage wrought by the East Japan earthquake, it is necessary for individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations and government entities to come together and create a “new public commons”. The “Apps for Japan Project” aims to do just that…” checkout this article via Govloop: http://www.govloop.com/forum/topic/show?id=1154385%3ATopic%3A1416357

 

Video launching the vision

We have a YouTube video! Here is the first presentation launching the vision for the Emergency 2.0 Wiki… to empower the community with the knowledge to use social media and web2.0 in emergencies. It was filmed at the gov2qld group Crisis Communications Workshop by Reading Room who kindly edited this excerpt for us and posted it on our YouTube Channel!