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13 people are interested
Put Your Web Skills to Work for Disaster Response
ORGANIZATION: CEDR Digital Corps
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13 people are interested
As digital helpers during disasters, CEDR's website is a critical resource for the public to find information during a disaster and resources to help with recovery. Help CEDR refresh our website and keep it an evergreen resource for people in disaster-impacted areas by contributing in one of the following roles:
- Project Manager: Work with the project team and stakeholders to develop the schedule and deliverables to refresh website by May.
- Graphic Designers: Improve the look and feel of the site by creating graphics that make the site visually appealing, easy for viewers to navigate and understand information.
- Content Editors: Write content that will help tell CEDR’s story and achievements in a clear, concise and easy to understand manner.
- Web Developers: Work with stakeholders to help make CEDR’s website more dynamic, while ensuring the technical/specification requirements needed to integrate and update the website successfully implemented.
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About CEDR Digital Corps
Location:
PO Box 230651, Tigard, OR 97281, US
Mission Statement
CEDR Digital Corps coordinates the work of volunteers around the world to create and utilize innovative technical solutions to challenges in disaster response and mitigation.
Description
CEDR Digital Corps are digital helpers during disasters. We harness the power and wisdom of the crowd to provide vital situational awareness to emergency management agencies during disaster, while simultaneously providing critical factual information to the public from official sources. We leverage technology and social media to quickly gather and vet critical information about conditions on the ground. All the data collection and dissemination is to help both first responders and impacted individuals in disaster areas.
Last year, as members of a spontaneous group of volunteers, we:
- mapped over 12,000 data points related to: infrastructure conditions, gasoline, power, and water/food distribution points
- broadcasted over 100 Zello Broadcasts in Spanish and English regarding conditions in Puerto Rico to an audience of over 1,000 subscribers
- authored and published unique hurricane-related health and safety social media and blog posts in several languages as a means to reach and help those in disaster zones
- supported Puerto Rican citizens with a variety of strategies to counter the information vacuum that occurred when their communications infrastructure collapsed.
Between July 30-Aug 29 2018, CEDR posted over 1,200 tweets amplifying local, state and ICM social media messages related to four national level wildfires and one major hurricane. Our active engagement with the public during that period, garnered over 1.3M organic impressions and resulted in over 1,000 retweets of a critical FEMA map.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
February 17, 2019
SKILLS
- Marketing & Communications (Mar/Com)
- Website Programming
- Website Project Management
- Web Design
- Graphic Design
- Copy Writing / Copy Editing
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Time commitment is flexible. As a virtual organization volunteers can volunteer on their schedule.
- Willingness to collaborate online/virtually.