Early Results of MicroMappers Response to Yolanda Typhoon

We have completed our digital humanitarian operation in the Philippines after five continuous days with MicroMappers. Many, many thanks to all volunteers from all around the world who donated their time by clicking on tweets and images coming from the Philippines. Our UN OCHA colleagues have confirmed that the results are being shared widely with their teams in the field and with other humanitarian organizations on the ground. More here.

In terms of preliminary figures (to be confirmed):

Tweets collected during first 48 hours of landfall = ~230,000
Tweets automatically filtered for relevancy/uniqueness = ~55,000
Tweets clicked using the TweetClicker = ~ 30,000
Total clicks on TweetClicker = ~ 90,000
Images clicked using the ImageClicker = ~ 5,000
Total clicks on ImageClicker = ~15,000
Total clicks on MicroMappers (Image + Tweet Clickers) = ~105,000

Since each single tweet and image uploaded to the Clickers was clicked on by (at least) three individual volunteers for quality control purposes, the number of clicks is three times the total number of tweets and images uploaded to the respective clickers. In sum, digital humanitarian volunteers have clocked a grand total of ~105,000 clicks to support humanitarian operations in the Philippines.