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..open IR most important can this be a MOOC and youth's most open network for disaster prevention

 

can we get 2010s back to investing in futures netgeneration youth most want to serve?

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 details on 2 & 3 coming soon

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OPEN INFRARED, or OpenIR, is a web application offering geo-located infrared data as on-demand map layers, and translating the data so that anyone can read it easily. Anyone can use OpenIR, thus opening the world of satellite data to crisis responders, citizen journalists, indigenous groups, and more.

OpenIR can be used for rescuing flood victims, detecting volcanic damage, finding the extent of wildfires, and seeing where the next landslide may occur.  OpenIR can also be combined with existing geo-crowdsourcing data trackers, like Ushahidi (http://ushahidi.org), which collects point-based information submitted by individual people for the purpose of documenting political and natural disasters.  

OpenIR will be pilot tested in Indonesia, where the massive 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami took more than 200,000 lives. Economically developing, ecologically vulnerable areas, like Indonesia’s Banda Aceh region, were disproportionately affected.

With OpenIR, not only can more lives be saved during a crisis, the crisis itself may be prevented.

Impact

Provide real-time IR analysis tools for all major disasters

Problem

Disambiguation of Real-time Disaster and Relief Information

Who We Are

The DuKode Studio: Previous Work. The idea for OpenIR stemmed from work at The DuKode Studio, whose principals, Arlene Ducao and Ilias Koen, have worked with public infrared satellite data for many years, from sources including NASA, NOAA, and USGS, and for clients including the American Museum of Natural History and the Princeton-based research organization Climate Central. DuKode’s principals have also worked with human development data [UN HDR], iOS and web programming, and have been awarded large grants, like the NSF Small Business Innovation Research award in 2009.

Arlene Ducao (MIT & The DuKode Studio): Project Organizer and UI Programmer.  Arlene is OpenIR’s overall coordinator, and her technical focus is on interpretive user interface. She is an Ida Green Fellow in the MIT Media Lab's Information Ecology group and is also a co-founder and principal of The DuKode Studio. She holds an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts, and a BS and BM from the University of Maryland. A Filipino-American, Arlene recently returned from Bangalore and seeks ways to improve environmental services in South and Southeast Asia.
  

Ilias Koen (The DuKode Studio): Data Organizer and Data Programmer.Ilias will focus on IR satellite data acquisition, processing, and delivery. He is a co-founder and principal of The DuKode Studio. In 2005, he received an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts. He was born in Athens, Greece, and received a BFA at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is always interested in technologies and art forms that can enhance visual cognition.

Juhee Bae (MIT): Usability and Implementation Researcher.  Juhee will research usability issues via community outreach. She is a third-year double major in Urban Studies and Planning and Civil and Environmental Engineering. She's highly experienced in community outreach projects, having worked with communities in Boston, New Orleans, rural India, South Africa, and Panama, and she is familiar with several different types of GIS software. She is very interested in bringing OpenIR to the general public, particularly to developing regions.


Abdulaziz Alghunaim (MIT): Server and Data Programmer.Abdulaziz will build OpenIR’s server capabilities and assist Ilias with data programming. He is a first-year undergraduate student at MIT pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He grew up in Saudi Arabia, which gave him international exposure. While abroad, he was involved with national plans to enrich the Arabic digital content on the web, specifically games and multimedia. Abdulaziz is interested in systems, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

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United Nations Global Pulse  

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NYC, Jakarta  

Description

Global Pulse is an innovation initiative of the UN Secretary-General, harnessing today's new world of digital data and real-time analytics to gain a better understanding of changes in human well-being.

more at http://openir.media.mit.edu/main/?page_id=11

http://eco.media.mit.edu/

examples of infrared used to map floods rochester institute of tech http://ipler.cis.rit.edu/flood

Flood mapping: The Susquehanna river (Binghamton, NY) flooded its banks in 2006 - the WASP system was able to map 44 linear miles in two hours

UB's Landscape-based Environmental System Analysis & Modeling (LESAM) Group and RIT's Laboratory for Imaging Algorithms and Systems (LIAS) have established track records in remote sensing of hydrology and flood events. Examples include UB's GeoWEPP program and flood mapping using RIT's WASP sensors.

In June 2006 over 10 inches of rain fell within a 36-hour period in the Binghamton, NY, region. The Susquehanna river rose rapidly and caused historic flooding. New York State Gas and Electric (NYSEG), a local energy utility, was quickly faced with a catastrophe. The flooding caused the pilot lights on furnaces to extinguish, thus allowing houses to fill with natural gas and resulting in explosions. NYSEG desperately needed to map the location and extent of flooding - they used a manual, helicopter-based approach, which took three days to complete. RIT's WASP system was used to remap the entire area as part of a 2007 demonstration and was able to provide geo-registered flood extent data within two hours after take-off (see top-right).

Lidar structural data: Lidar data collected over the Seneca Nation of Indians in upstate New York. These data can be used to assess topography, riverbed obstructions, and map water depth, when coupled with a flood extent mapLidar structural data: Lidar data collected over the Seneca Nation of Indians in upstate New York. These data can be used to assess topography, riverbed obstructions, and map water depth, when coupled with a flood extent map

The IPLER project intends to formalize some of these abilities that would enable real-time, geo-registered down-linked flood products directly to emergency responders. This will be accomplished by studying the phenomenology of near-infrared flood characterization and by using different remote sensing modalities, e.g., light detection and ranging (lidar). Lidar is useful for mapping topography, riverbed obstructions, etc. The image on the left shows lidar data in point-cloud (range) format. Algorithm development is required to go from high data volume point clouds to useful structural products, such as topography and vegetation structure. This research will form one of the core activities of the IPLER initiative, given the usefulness of structural data in rural (left) and urban (below) environments.

flooding in Bangladesh http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=75871


Flooding in Bangladesh
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Northeastern Bangladesh disappeared under monsoon floods as rains drenched the region in June 2006. By June 21, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image, the floods stretched across hundreds of kilometers of what had been dry land a month earlier. You can rollover the image to see an image of the same area aquired on May 22, 2006. According to Reuters, the floods claimed nine lives, made 10,000 homeless, and marooned more than a million by June 18. The monsoon rains typically last from June to September. These satellite images of the floods are shown in infrared to allow water to stand out against the land. Water is black and dark blue. Plant-covered land is green, and clouds are pale blue and white.

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Dear Ilia/Arlene/Barry/All Open IR and friends of Youth's Futures

 

Really nice meeting you at MIT media lab yesterday. Let me think aloud (even though I am the least expert here)

 

What I hear is the challenge is how to gravitate more and more people passionate about visual maps and open IRhttp://openir.media.mit.edu/main/ keeping together first the superb team Arlene's thesis at MIT has brought together alongside ten or more years of interests that Ilia and Arlene have been linking in out a new york consultancy studio http://dukodestudio.com/abou

 

Some possible themes

 

1 Future of Disaster Relief and Prevention

If I understand the passion that unites you is this is a hugely important area for humanity where we are perhaps only connecting 1% of the data we could soon understand. My gut says that some time in the next few years BRAC and ILAB need to be on same journey as one you wish to navigate. 

 

WHAT DOES BRAC DO

In the countries that it serves disaster relief (natural crises Bangladesh and Sri Lanka- some other man made crisis countries) it stays there and continues reconstruction more economically bottom-up than any organisation I know. So I assume in those countries it could have the authority to call together a conference or something if we could work out one that you wanted called. Also BRAC is into missing curriculum of 21st C. Not just at tertiary level. For example it is the biggest supplier of the financial literacy curriculum that started in an orphanage and which is taught to primary age 7 to 11. Maybe part of your vision is sometime in the next decade all the geo-subjects would look completely different if open IR was popular. BRAC is a very practice-led network - so while it can cheer on missing pure research and celebrate collaboration that is grounded in communities, its not likely to lead fund raising of that (unless I am missing an application)

 

If I can make progress on one or two things sir fazle wants most, I also hope he might add in an extra day to your MIT sometime in the next 18 months -

 

WHAT ILAB CAN DO

Shafqat is working with the founders of ILAB to see how to make Dhaka its 2nd space in Asia He would know how to correct any mistakes in my summary here:. In the risk areas that ILAB specialises in it is arguably second to none in terms of breaking down silos between institutes analysts work for. While ILAB co-founder Larry Brilliant has historically been most interested in data needed to prevent plagues etc, there are presentations of him (particularly in his former life in google.org) wanting to help Bangladesh from getting washed away. And since the philanthropist in the middle of ILAB is Jeff Skoll who also funded Gore's Inconvenient Truth , in a dream world there would be a meeting of the minds between you and brilliant and skoll but I dont know what the first contact point is

 

2 Geo-explorers and Green Champions

My searches through disaster prevention have led me accidentally to getting to know some of the world's polar explorers and ocean divers. For example Paul Rose who presents the BBC programs on Oceans. Trouble is he is out of contact 10 months in 12. However if you have a bunch of ocean stories (coral reefs or whatever) then I can try and distribute them through his sort of people - perhaps particularly at the royal geographical society in london. The British council is also supposed to be a worldwide host of youth climate champions; I dont know if there is some subnetwork there to recontact. Mostofa, another Bangladeshi, has been linking in some of those people and ultimately the group whose knowledge we most want to help turn into a secondary curriculum is the community green energy networks www.ashden.org which is led by the daughter of the uk supermarket dynasty sainsburys (who are a sort of family friend) and also links to Prince Charles interests in ecology

 

3 NASA U of Maryland etc Before my wife fell ill, she worked for 10 years at university of maryland up to about 2005 on ocean modelling of nasa data. I m rather wary of how many silos seem to be built round big institutes analysing NASA data. If I could find a way to make a constructive nuisance of myself until all these groups opened up that would be fun. It seems that NASA uses excuses like national defence to make these silos ever bigger. As a mathematician and system mapper there are so many areas where risk data is not analysed openly enough for sustainability on a borderless world to be likely. Hope our searches for openness find some breakthroughs

 

4 Underground Freshwater Mapping 

Dukode studio seemed to have one map in this area but I am unclear if its an area you aim to linkin. Used to know some freshwater activists who wanted freedom of information on this area to be opened up.. Tell me if it is or becomes a cse whose datasets you are focusing on

 

chris

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I am a fan of linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9500&trk=tab_pro and skype chrismacraec


 

PS Have cc's rodolfo of the YouVest network. His mit networks are different but it could be somewhere in youth connecting changes the world needs that there is an intersection. I also occasionally butterfly in and out of Japanese Embassies who I feel take a deeper interest in the sustainability of the Asian Pacific region- I will try and ask around though thats not likely to happen on any particular timeline

 

Also Zasheem and I publish a journal out of Glasgow on the futures youth are being prevented from openly or economically collaborating around. It is edited by Adam Smith scholars because the most relevant to me definition of economics is designing or destroying the worldwide systems peoples need most. Currently 95% of economists are sponsored by those who profit from ending sustainability - the nightmare scenario of the conclusion to Keynes general theory.

 

Delighted to publish an exploration paper of yours at any time

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Since gaining my MA statistics Cambridge DAMTP 1973 (Corpus Christi College) my special sibject has been community building networks- these are the 6 most exciting collaboration opportunities my life has been privileged to map - the first two evolved as grassroots person to person networks before 1996 in tropical Asian places where village women had no access to electricity grids nor phones- then came mobile and solar entrepreneurial revolutions!! 

COLLAB platforms of livesmatter communities to mediate public and private -poorest village mothers empowering end of poverty    5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5  5.6


4 livelihood edu for all 

4.1  4.2  4.3  4.4  4.5 4.6


3 last mile health services  3.1 3,2  3.3  3.4   3.5   3.6


last mile nutrition  2.1   2.2   2.3   2.4  2.5  2,6


banking for all workers  1.1  1.2  1.3   1.4   1.5   1.6


NEWS FROM LIBRARY NORMAN MACRAE -latest publication 2021 translation into japanese biography of von neumann:

Below: neat German catalogue (about half of dad's signed works) but expensive  -interesting to see how Germans selected the parts  they like over time: eg omitted 1962 Consider Japan The Economist 

feel free to ask if free versions are available 

The coming entrepreneurial revolution : a survey Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 261 (1976), pp. 41-65 cited 105 

Macrae, Norman - In: IPA review / Institute of PublicAffairs 25 (1971) 3, pp. 67-72  
 Macrae, Norman - The Economist 257 (1975), pp. 1-44 
6 The future of international business Macrae, Norman - In: Transnational corporations and world order : readings …, (pp. 373-385). 1979 >
Future U.S. growth and leadership assessed from abroad Macrae, Norman - In: Prospects for growth : changing expectations for the future, (pp. 127-140). 1977 Check Google Scholar | 
9Entrepreneurial Revolution - next capitalism: in hi-tech left=right=center; The Economist 1976
Macrae, Norman -In: European community (1978), pp. 3-6
  Macrae, Norman - In: Kapitalismus heute, (pp. 191-204). 1974
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. we scots are less than 4/1000 of the worlds and 3/4 are Diaspora - immigrants in others countries. Since 2008 I have been celebrating Bangladesh Women Empowerment solutions wth NY graduates. Now I want to host love each others events in new york starting this week with hong kong-contact me if we can celebrate anoither countries winm-wins with new yorkers

mapping OTHER ECONOMIES:

50 SMALLEST ISLAND NATIONS

TWO Macroeconomies FROM SIXTH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WHITE & war-prone

ADemocratic

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From 60%+ people =Asian Supercity (60TH YEAR OF ECONOMIST REPORTING - SEE CONSIDER JAPAN1962)

Far South - eg African, Latin Am, Australasia

Earth's other economies : Arctic, Antarctic, Dessert, Rainforest

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In addition to how the 5 primary sdgs1-5 are gravitated we see 6 transformation factors as most critical to sustainability of 2020-2025-2030

Xfactors to 2030 Xclimate XAI Xinfra Xyouth Wwomen Xpoor chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk (scot currently  in washington DC)- in 1984 i co-authored 2025 report with dad norman.

Asia Rising Surveys

Entrepreneurial Revolution -would endgame of one 40-year generations of applying Industrial Revolution 3,4 lead to sustainability of extinction

1972's Next 40 Years ;1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate 1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now

The Economist had been founded   in 1843" marking one of 6 exponential timeframes "Future Histores"

IN ASSOCIATION WITH ADAMSMITH.app :

we offer worldwide mapping view points from

1 2 now to 2025-30

and these viewpoints:

40 years ago -early 1980s when we first framed 2025 report;

from 1960s when 100 times more tech per decade was due to compound industrial revolutions 3,4 

1945 birth of UN

1843 when the economist was founded

1760s - adam smithian 2 views : last of pre-engineering era; first 16 years of engineering ra including america's declaration of independence- in essence this meant that to 1914 continental scaling of engineeriing would be separate new world <.old world

conomistwomen.com

IF we 8 billion earthlings of the 2020s are to celebrate collaboration escapes from extinction, the knowhow of the billion asian poorest women networks will be invaluable -

in mathematically connected ways so will the stories of diaspora scots and the greatest mathematicians ever home schooled -central european jewish teens who emigrated eg Neumann , Einstein ... to USA 2nd quarter of the 20th century; it is on such diversity that entrepreneurial revolution diaries have been shaped 

EconomistPOOR.com : Dad was born in the USSR in 1923 - his dad served in British Embassies. Dad's curiosity enjoyed the opposite of a standard examined education. From 11+ Norman observed results of domination of humans by mad white men - Stalin from being in British Embassy in Moscow to 1936; Hitler in Embassy of last Adriatic port used by Jews to escape Hitler. Then dad spent his last days as a teen in allied bomber command navigating airplanes stationed at modernday Myanmar. Surviving thanks to the Americas dad was in Keynes last class where he was taught that only a handful of system designers control what futures are possible. EconomistScotland.com AbedMooc.com

To help mediate such, question every world eventwith optimistic rationalism, my father's 2000 articles at The Economist interpret all sorts of future spins. After his 15th year he was permitted one signed survey a year. In the mid 1950s he had met John Von Neumann whom he become biographer to , and was the only journalist at Messina's's birth of EU. == If you only have time for one download this one page tour of COLLABorations composed by Fazle Abed and networked by billion poorest village women offers clues to sustainability from the ground up like no white ruler has ever felt or morally audited. by London Scot James Wilson. Could Queen Victoria change empire fro slavemaking to commonwealth? Some say Victoria liked the challenge James set her, others that she gave him a poison pill assignment. Thus James arrived in Calcutta 1860 with the Queens permission to charter a bank by and for Indian people. Within 9 months he died of diarrhea. 75 years later Calcutta was where the Young Fazle Abed grew up - his family accounted for some of the biggest traders. Only to be partitioned back at age 11 to his family's home region in the far north east of what had been British Raj India but was now to be ruled by Pakistan for 25 years. Age 18 Abed made the trek to Glasgow University to study naval engineering.

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1943 marked centenary autobio of The Economist and my teenage dad Norman prepping to be navigator allied bomber command Burma Campaign -thanks to US dad survived, finished in last class of Keynes. before starting 5 decades at The Economist; after 15 years he was allowed to sign one survey a year starting in 1962 with the scoop that Japan (Korea S, Taiwan soon hk singapore) had found development mp0de;s for all Asian to rise. Rural Keynes could end village poverty & starvation; supercity win-win trades could celebrate Neumanns gift of 100 times more tech per decade (see macrae bio of von neumann)

Since 1960 the legacy of von neumann means ever decade multiplies 100 times more micro-technology- an unprecedented time for better or worse of all earthdwellers; 2025 timelined and mapped innovation exponentials - education, health, go green etc - (opportunities threats) to celebrating sustainability generation by 2025; dad parted from earth 2010; since then 2 journals by adam smith scholars out of Glasgow where engines began in 1760- Social Business; New Economics have invited academic worlds and young graduates to question where the human race is going - after 30 business trips to wealthier parts of Asia, through 2010s I have mainly sherpa's young journalist to Bangladesh - we are filing 50 years of cases on women empowerment at these web sites AbedMOOC.com FazleAbed.com EconomistPoor.com EconomistUN.com WorldRecordjobs.com Economistwomen.com Economistyouth.com EconomistDiary.com UNsummitfuture.com - in my view how a billion asian women linked together to end extreme poverty across continental asia is the greatest and happiest miracle anyone can take notes on - please note the rest of this column does not reflect my current maps of how or where the younger half of the world need to linkin to be the first sdg generation......its more like an old scrap book

 how do humans design futures?-in the 2020s decade of the sdgs – this question has never had more urgency. to be or not to be/ – ref to lessons of deming or keynes, or glasgow university alumni smith and 200 years of hi-trust economics mapmaking later fazle abed - we now know how-a man made system is defined by one goal uniting generations- a system multiplies connected peoples work and demands either accelerating progress to its goal or collapsing - sir fazle abed died dec 2020 - so who are his most active scholars climate adaptability where cop26 november will be a great chance to renuite with 260 years of adam smith and james watts purposes t end poverty-specifically we interpret sdg 1 as meaning next girl or boy born has fair chance at free happy an productive life as we seek to make any community a child is born into a thriving space to grow up between discover of new worlds in 1500 and 1945 systems got worse and worse on the goal eg processes like slavery emerged- and ultimately the world was designed around a handful of big empires and often only the most powerful men in those empires. 4 amazing human-tech systems were invented to start massive use by 1960 borlaug agriculture and related solutions every poorest village (2/3people still had no access to electricity) could action learn person to person- deming engineering whose goal was zero defects by helping workers humanize machines- this could even allowed thousands of small suppliers to be best at one part in machines assembled from all those parts) – although americans invented these solution asia most needed them and joyfully became world class at them- up to 2 billion people were helped to end poverty through sharing this knowhow- unlike consuming up things actionable knowhow multiplies value in use when it links through every community that needs it the other two technologies space and media and satellite telecoms, and digital analytic power looked promising- by 1965 alumni of moore promised to multiply 100 fold efficiency of these core tech each decade to 2030- that would be a trillion tmes moore than was needed to land on the moon in 1960s. you might think this tech could improve race to end poverty- and initially it did but by 1990 it was designed around the long term goal of making 10 men richer than 40% poorest- these men also got involved in complex vested interests so that the vast majority of politicians in brussels and dc backed the big get bigger - often they used fake media to hide what they were doing to climate and other stuff that a world trebling in population size d\ - we the 3 generations children parents grandparents have until 2030 to design new system orbits gravitated around goal 1 and navigating the un's other 17 goals do you want to help/ 8 cities we spend most time helping students exchange sustainability solutions 2018-2019 BR0 Beijing Hangzhou: 

Girls world maps begin at B01 good news reporting with fazleabed.com  valuetrue.com and womenuni.com

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MA1 AliBaba TaoBao

Ma 2 Ali Financial

Ma10.1 DT and ODPS

health catalogue; energy catalogue

Keynes: 2025now - jobs Creating Gen

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how poorest women in world build

A01 BRAC health system,

A02 BRAC education system,

A03 BRAC banking system

K01 Twin Health System - Haiti& Boston

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