Open data and federal standards for crisis mapping and responding to citizen needs in real time

Topline Description

There is no widely used national framework or platform for soliciting requests (for help) and coordinating response to citizen needs in a crisis, e.g. sharing open data to help delegate and triage response across state, local, federal, non-profit, and volunteer efforts. In lieu of this people have resorted to using social media and homegrown crisis mapping platforms for communications. We should embrace bottom up solutions and go to where people already are, but institute common standards to aggregate and harmonize these platforms to facilitate more coherent and unified crisis response. Look to examples like the Common Alerting Protocol, Person Finder Interchange Format, NG911, Open311, OpenReferral, etc.

Key Objective(s)

This is not just open data for the purpose of transparency or innovation, it's open data to save lives. This is open data to facilitate collaboration between multiple levels of government, civil society organizations, and citizen volunteers in the most critical time of need.

Paragraph Description

For examples, please review paragraphs from past National Action Plan commitments (see https://open.usa.gov)

Measurable Metrics - How can we quantify, verify, monitor, and report progress? Work should be completed by June 2019. Timelines encouraged.

Milestones include:

Have a summit that brings together the key stakeholders and innovators in this space including social media platforms as well as local leaders (especially from recently impacted areas)
Survey and highlight existing interoperability initiatives
Draft MVP proof of concept specification to facilitate integration across multiple stakeholders
Implement specification in at least two local regions and demonstrate integration across multiple stakeholders

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