For more details see http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Cambridge

CrisisCamp is a movement of volunteers, many are technologists and IT professionals, that have come together in a number of cities around the world in support of relief efforts around the world. The initial CrisisCamps were in response to the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. Since then over 2000 volunteers in nearly 20 cities have come together to volunteer their time and skills.  Aptivate is continuing its support for CrisisCamps by hosting the next camp, on 14th August 2010, in our offices in Cambridge, supported by the Humanitarian Centre.  The focus of this camp will be to support the start up of a CrisisCamp in Pakistan in response to the recent floods.

For more details and to register for one of the limited, free tickets see http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Cambridge

Crisis Camp London

We’re getting ready for the second Crisis Camp London day, this Saturday, at the London Knowledge Lab.

Considering how quickly last Saturday was put together we had a great turn out. We’re hoping for, and expecting, an even larger turn out this time.

We’re getting out all the laptops, network gear, and spare projectors we can find. We’ve got enough flip-charts to paper the Albert Hall. I even heard that Domino’s were considering sponsoring the pizza again – and with added vegan options too. Many thanks to them!

We’re on conference calls to the US Crisis Camps and projects. We’re part of a strong team looking after the organisation, infrastructure and facilitation of the London event.

It really is quite something the speed with which this is coming together and the level of interest and motivation. This looks set to become an important movement.

If you are technical (eg. an IT project manager, a coder, a user experience person) or have relief experience and want to help Crisis Camp London support Haiti, then please come along.

• find out more
• register

You can also help by printing out and displaying the Crisis Camp London Poster

#CrisisCampLDN

#crisiscampLDN team at work

On Saturday 23rd of January, Aptivate were out in force at Crisis Camp London which was kindly hosted by the London Knowledge Lab.

Björn had a chance to grab some footage on the day and put together a short video explaining what Crisis Camp is all about, what it’s like in London and what you might expect if you come along.

Crisis Camp London will be a regular event for the next few weeks, one which is going to grow in size and impact.

If you’d like to follow what’s going here are the links:

Ning: http://crisiscampldn.ning.com/

Twitter hashtag: #crisiscampldn
Twitter account: @crisiscampLDN

Crisis Camp London wiki: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Camp_London

You can also click on the image above for a link you the video on YouTube.