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UNDP EYES UKRAINE’S DAMAGED BUILDINGS WITH CROWDSOURCING, MOBILE APP

Aida Akl
Posted February 13th, 2015 at 2:37 pm (UTC-5)
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A man walks through a passageway of a mental hospital destroyed during heavy
fighting between Ukrainian army and pro-Russian rebels in June in the village of
Semyonovka, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk, Sept. 28, 2014.
(Reuters)



The crisis that plunged east Ukraine into war in November 2013 has damaged or
destroyed critical infrastructure and limited access to areas caught up in
fighting between Ukraine’s government forces and pro-Russian rebels. In order to
assess damage, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) turned to
crowdsourcing to help restore social infrastructure as part of a United Nations,
European Union and World Bank Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment for Eastern
Ukraine.

In an email interview with TECHtonics, UNDP’s Ukraine Deputy Resident
Representative, Inita Pauloviča, discussed the platform the agency put together
to address these issues as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Q. How  did this idea come about?

Pauloviča: … Due to the ongoing conflict, the access to the territories was
limited; and we came up with this crowdsourcing platform to engage volunteers,
local officials and communities in helping restoration of critically important
social infrastructure.

We also think that it is important for people who had to leave their homes to
save their lives to monitor the situation and keep in touch with  their
communities.

Drive for innovation has long been the focus of the UNDP Ukraine’s development
agenda. Through a number of hackathons, innovation labs, and Social Good Summit
meet-ups, we bring together on a regular basis leading thinkers and
practitioners, social innovation champions, students, academia, business
representatives, innovators, and trend-setters to find solutions to the
development challenges that Ukraine faces.

Over the years, UNDP has initiated and supported a number of innovative projects
that resulted in practical tools and solutions that improve services and tackle
problems effectively and efficiently. Several pilot projects tested new and
out-of-the-box approaches to solving developmental problems in the areas of
municipal solid waste management, e-governance, administrative services
provision, anti-corruption, access to public information, and citizen engagement
with policy-making.

Q. What does the app do exactly?

Pauloviča: Using an interactive map, ReDonbass, and a mobile app (Android and
iOS), people of Donetsk and Lugansk regions can report damaged homes, hospitals,
schools, kindergartens or libraries.

A screenshot of UNDP’s app and crowdsourcing map for east Ukraine damage
assessment. (UNDP)

The easy-to-use interactive tool allows any person with a mobile phone and
access to the Internet to download the most accurate data about the building in
its location, photographs of the damage, and the status of the recovery phase.
After that, the Ukrainian government and international donors will use the data
to better plan reconstruction.

Information from the map will contribute to an ongoing Recovery and
Peacebuilding Assessment for Eastern Ukraine. UNDP is part of the assessment
that brings the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank Group
together to analyze the impact of the conflict and offer recommendations for
short-term recovery and peacebuilding over the next two years.

We think that this easy-to-use interactive map is a natural solution to help the
Government and international donors define priorities in early recovery.

Q. How long has it been deployed?

Pauloviča: The map [was] launched three weeks ago and information about 1400
damaged buildings [has] already been uploaded. We expect even more uploads as
many NGOs, volunteer groups and local governments started to share information
about it among local activists and communities.

The map has also proven to be very useful for the experts from the Ukrainian
Government and a recently launched UNDP-Government of Japan project aiming to
restore critical infrastructure for social care and services. They [are] using
it to identify schools, orphanages, elderly homes, and social services centers
that need to be restored and rebuilt first.

Q. Have you used this approach before in other countries?

Pauloviča: Similar technology has been employed by UNDP in a number of countries
that lived through crises.

We’ve been inspired by the work of crisis mapper Patrick Meier as well as
Ushahidi, a free, open-source software for collecting, visualizing and mapping
information.

In … Macedonia, we designed an app to ensure public access to data on dangerous
events like earthquakes, floods and fires and potential hazards like violent
thunderstorms and heavy snowfalls.

In Georgia, UNDP supported ELVA, an NGO that pioneered a reporting system that
uses text message and the internet to combine the mapping of Ushahidi with the
requirements of human-rights researchers

And last year in Ukraine, we launched a mobile app for free on Google Play which
provides easy access to municipal emergency services and allows citizens to
report cases of corruption via 14 different anti-corruption hotlines.

Q. Based on results, might you use the same approach again in other areas of
conflict?

Pauloviča: Indeed the approach can be used anywhere in any country in the world
where people have relatively high access to mobile technologies (smartphones)
and the Internet.

It is very simple, user-friendly, intuitive and free of charge. I think this is
the technology of the future and we will see more and more of it in different
parts of the planet. And one of UNDP’s priorities is to promote sharing of
knowledge and high technologies that help people to live better lives.

Aida Akl Twitter
Aida Akl is a journalist working on VOA's English Webdesk. She has written on a
wide range of topics, although her more recent contributions have focused on
technology. She has covered both domestic and international events since the
mid-1980s as a VOA reporter and international broadcaster.

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2 RESPONSES TO “UNDP EYES UKRAINE’S DAMAGED BUILDINGS WITH CROWDSOURCING, MOBILE
APP”


 1. Crowd Coffee: February 16 - MovEnergy says:
    February 16, 2015 at 3:06 pm
    
    […] UNDP Eyes Ukraine’s Damaged Buildings With Crowdsourcing, Mobile App |
    VOA NewsThe crisis that plunged east Ukraine into war in November 2013 has
    damaged or destroyed critical infrastructure and limited access to areas
    caught up in fighting between Ukraine’s government forces and pro-Russian
    rebels. In order to assess damage, the United Nations Development Program
    (UNDP) turned to crowdsourcing to help restore social infrastructure as part
    of a United Nations, European Union and World Bank Recovery and
    Peacebuilding Assessment for Eastern Ukraine. […]
    
    Reply
    
 2. Wendy Portilla says:
    September 29, 2015 at 8:00 pm
    
    Thanks for sharing.
    
    Reply
    




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