Signalert: Citizen Science for Environmental Monitoring & Disaster Risk Reduction

1. CITIZEN SCIENCE, CROWDMAPPING, CROWDSOURCING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL, DISASTERS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT MONITORING, CRISIS MANAGEMENT & SECURITY, AWARENESS RAISING IGNITE STAGE WORLD CONFERENCE FOR DISASTERS RISK REDUCTION SENDAI 15 MARCH 2015 MARCH 2015

2. SINCE ON LINE REAL TIME DEMO IS NOT POSSIBLE DURING IGNITE STAGE PRESENTATION PLEASE DOWNLOAD “SIGNALERT APP” ON APPLESTORE OR GOOGLEPLAY DURING THE PRESENTATION AND MEET ME AFTER FOR A DEMONSTRATION RICHARD GUILLANDE signalert@orange.fr +33682689192 OR COME TO THE FRENCH BOOTH AT SENDAI CIVIC AUDITORIUM

3. SIGNALERT citizenenvironmental monitoring PROJECT ORIGIN

4. A PROJECT INSPIRED BY PRACTICES OBSERVED AROUND THE WORLD BY THE PROJECT INITIATOR STARTED IN 2012 BY PRIVATE PARTNERS Crowdsourcing with cellphone for prices control on markets (Haïti) Intensity scales to characterize locally intensity and impact of natural phenomenon‘s (France) Rural community physical markers of flood level for early warning from village to village using leapfrog transmission with cell phone (Togo)

5. SIGNALERT citizenenvironmental monitoring PRINCIPLES OF THE SERVICE

6. citizen HOW DOES SIGNALERT WORK? SIGNALERT PLATFORM ANDINTERFACE Int. Org., NGO’s Gov’s, Private

7. Example of intensity and Impact/damage scale for Avalanche. Intensity and damage are separated, the linkbeingdependant on vulnerability A SIMPLE METHOD BUT A SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGE: SIMPLE DESCRIPTORS AND MARKERS RECOGNISABLE BY ANYONE TO RANK ON ONE HAND THE INTENSITY LEVEL OF THE PHENONEMON AND ON THE OTHER THE DAMAGE AND IMPACT LEVELS WITH A FEW QUESTIONS

8. A CONSTANTLY GROWING AND EVOLVING APPLICATION AVAILABLE FLOODS FLASH FLOODS SNOW FALLS AVALANCHES WILD FIRES CYCLONES, HURRICANES, TYPHOONS IN PREPARATION EARTHQUAKES STORM SURGE AIR POLLUTION WATER POLLUTION DROUGHT AND HEAT WAVES VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS TSUNAMIS CIVIL UNREST EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES SIGNALERT MONITORING OFALL TYPES OF DANGEROUSSITUATIONS

9. THE FREE SMARTPHONE APP

10. Available in English, French, soon in Spanish and other languages on demand • Real time report of events and phenomenon's you are observing or experiencing, attach geolocation and pictures • Reception of alerts sent by other users in the neighborhood of your last alert sent. • Behavior advices for each type of event (regular addition of new types of disasters or crisis situations) • Forward you alerts to facebook or twitter • Connection to popular early warning public and official sites • Immediate call of emergency numbers • Full privacy control • Create your community network of users with a code • Demo mode for training SIGNALERT APPTHE FREE PERSONAL TOOL TO CONTRIBUTE TO ENVIRONENTAL MONITORING AND BE ADVISED

11. Successive questions Type of phenomenon place Date/hour Questions on physicalintensity Question on local impacts and damages Photo/vidéo Yourowncomments Victims to assists Eachsender of an alertreceives in return a mapwhereheseeshisownalert and neighboralerts Links towardinstitutionalearly warning Forward to SIMPLE QUESTIONSUSER FRIENDLYONE MINUTE TO COMPLETE

12. THE PAID SMARTPHONE APP

13. Your own emergency numbers stored on the App for fast sending of messages An emergency “I am Safe” button that sends an SMS to reassure your family and friends if you are caught in the middle of a dangerous situation, and locatesyou. Permanent monitoring of your places of interest: receive in real time alerts (sms) about your chosen places of interest, as sent in by other users of the app in a radius of several kilometers. Real time push notifications about changes in flood warning levels on rivers that could affect you, near your places of interest (currently available in France and soon to be available elsewhere). The possibility to contact other users nearby who sent alerts, and who have given their consent to be contacted, to facilitate mutual support and quick assessmentof the situation. MY SIGNALERT (PAID APP)YOUR OWN MONITORINGSYSTEM OF ANY PLACESANYWHERE YOU ARE OR FORYOUR COMMUNITYLOCAL MONITORING SYSTEM

14. THE WEB SERVICE FOR CONSULTATION AND ANALYSIS OF ALERTS AND EVENT DETECTION

15. SIGNALERT CONSULT • An easy to use web interface to view and analyse alerts sent by smartphone users, export of merge with other map layers • Yearly subscription on a given area of your choice anywhere and for the types of events you need to monitor • Possibility to privatize the App for a defined networks of users or on a your specific event description protocole. • No need of a permanent staff to exploit SIGNALERT CONSULT with our automatic event detection tool. You set up your own detection rules to be alerted in real time automatically by email and sms when alerts are sent and an event is detected on your area of interest. • No need of high level technical knowledge to handle the system • Tools for event and alerts/users reliability control A RANGE OF PRODUCTS FOR PROFESSIONALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING GIVING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (SAAS MODE):

16. SIGNALERT ACCESS (FREE ACCESS FOR ALL) • Yearly subscription for a territory by an institution giving free access for the public to web interface to view alerts • SIGNALERT DATA • To export alerts sent by the smartphone App users to your own incident command system A RANGE OF PRODUCTS FOR PROFESSIONALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING GIVING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (SAAS MODE):

17. SIGNALERT EXPLORE • Monitoring of data and information flow on social networks in relation with event detected with SIGNALERT CONSULT (Additional subscription ) • TWITTER ANALYSIS MODULE • Trigger Twitter crawling on eventdetected by SIGNALERT CONSULT • Get, filter, sort Tweets to keeponlysignificant and uefulmatterarounddetectedevents • Use Thesaurus of speciliazedterms and update itautomatically • Detectmostusedterms and words in relation or not with the event • Rank mostusedterms • Geolocate tweets and extract links in Tweets. HOW DO WE ENTER IN BIG DATA? WHAT DO WE BRING? AVOID RUMOURS CROSS ANALYSIS OF SIGNALERT EVENT AND SOCIAL MEDIA DATA FLOW WHAT REALLY AFFECT OR CONCERNS THE POPULATION ?

18. REALCASES

20. Scalability ReplicabilityApplicabilityAccessibility RELIABILITY

21. Running in English and French, soon Spanish requires only to be translated to become available to a new community of users. • The APP is constantly evolving with introduction of new phenomenon's after a consensus if found to identify markers or intensity and impacts. • The App being based on simple generic and not site specific description of environmental markers it can be understood easily by anyone • Only classical functions of Smartphone's are used making the App accessible to any possessor. • There is not geographical limit to the coverage, SIGNALERT is operational anywhere provided you have a EDGE, 3G, 4G, WIFI for internet. Tested and validated in Djibouti, Greece, Haiti, Island, Japan, Morocco, Pakistan, Spain, UK, USA and other countries • User’s and tester are constantly consulted for feed back and improvement of the App • Tools are introduced to detect and avoid improper use of the App. • Unlike social medias in crisis situations which require massive data for a good diagnosis, a single isolated testimony by an identified user of the App can be significant and crucial SCALABILITYREPLICABILITYAPPLICABILITYACCESSIBILITYRELIABILITY

22. STRATEGY AND APPROACH

23. SIGNALERT isdevelopedby a team joining: Scientists Specialists of hazards and risks Specialitss of early warning Actors of civil protection Community of users Validation goesthrough real cases during long term tests on large territories Feed back from APP and SERVICES users and clients CO-DEVELOPMENT&PARTICIPATION OF USERS

24. Le service central d’hydrométéorologie et d’appui à la prévision des inondations (Schapi) OUR PARTNERS AND TESTERSOUR CLIENTS (NOT ALL FOR THE APP) Comité interministériel d’Aménagement du Territoire • A PROJECT INITIATED THROUGH • FINANCIAL SUPPORT http://www.pole-risques.com/

25. PARTNERSHIPS

26. SHOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN: Contributing to the integration of a new phenomenon Translating the App in your national langage Testing on yourterritory Adapting to a community or population Adding a specificprivate protocole for event description accessible to selectedusers of the APP Contributing to expand the network of users Contractingour services or funding the development Contact us PARTNERSHIPS OPPORTUNITIES

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