'Web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government, civil society and the victims themselves.'
UIMA is "an open, industrial-strength, scaleable and extensible platform for creating, integrating and deploying unstructured information management solutions from combinations of semantic analysis and search components."
Project page for the Lucene open-source search/indexing software.
Article describing the features of the Lucene open-source search software.
'A white paper based on discussions held at the workshop “Open-source catastrophe risk modeling: how can we do it better?â€'
"ButterflyNet is a mobile capture and access system for field scientists ... to quickly find their handwritten notes, photographs, sensor readings, GPS track logs, and other research content through a fast and information-rich interface."
"An organization dedicated to the development and implementation of geospatial standards for free software."
An effort to produce free and accurate geodata, including CC license streetmaps of the world.
"An open source project that is aimed at providing a javascript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces using features available in modern web browsers".
"The Roadmap presents a coherent set of principles, best practices and case studies that can help create and sustain open ICT ecosystems". It is intended as "a catalyst for changing mental models globally about ICT ecosystems and pathways to innovation".
