Open Sourcing Natural Disaster Preparedness and Relief
summary
IBM’s Code in Response runs Call for Code as an open-source pipeline that claims to move prototypes into deployed relief: Project OWL wins 2018 with an IoT mesh that stands up ad hoc Wi‑Fi over square miles, begins field tests in Puerto Rico in March, and links to incident management; 100,000+ participants produced ~2,500 apps from 156 countries; 2019 nearly doubles contributors and apps and yields Pro Mateo, a firefighter wearable that streams temp humidity and gas telemetry into ML risk scoring. Code ships under Apache 2 license and partners with the Linux Foundation for deployment support.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Natural disaster preparedness intro
- 3:26IBM Call for Code intro
- 4:53Call for Code competition
- 6:17Project OWL 2018 impact
- 8:44Prometeo 2019 winner
- 11:42IBM Code and Response
- 13:30Open source global solutions
- 15:40Project OWL Puerto Rico tests
- 17:47Drone Aid disaster response
- 19:16Clinton Initiative codeathons
- 21:23Python in Call for Code
- 22:51Call for Code 2020 plans
- 23:54Q&A scaling solutions
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