Hackers
Against
Natural
Disasters
Geeks vs Tsunamis
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March 21st 2017
9:00 AM, Local Time
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March 21st 2017
9:00 AM, Local Time
magnitude = 8.5
depicenter = 80km offshore
depth = 40km
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March 21st 2017
9:05 AM, Local Time
Tsunami Alert is given
ETA: 9 min
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What would you do?
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Panic & Chaos
• Casualties due to panic movements
• Wrong decisions causing death
• Saturation of emergency networks
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75
81
250M
Tsunamis in the Caribbeans
for the past half-millenium
People
affected by
disasters every year
Mw6.5+ Earthquakes
Recorded in Japan since 2004
Numbers
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Mw* = Moment magnitude or Richter magnitude
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HAND
Multi-Talent taskforce
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1. Build useful POCs & tools.
2. Experiment and raise awareness
for local populations exposed to disasters.
3. Build & transfer knowledge to local communities
willing to take over.
Our Mission
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On day 1, there was… Gaël
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CaribeWave 2015 alpha-1
3 people
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CaribeWave 2016 alpha-2
10 people
long-range wireless communication
small-scale experiments
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CaribeWave 2017 beta
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16 people (HAND team) + Local community (Fablab Jarry)
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CaribeWave 2017 beta
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HAND
From
one guy willing to make a difference
To
An organized taskforce ready to deploy and grow
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HANDx Tomorrow
More use cases for the HAND teams
New teams able to be mobilized for on-site drills
Partners to enable more operations to happen
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