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Watchfire — Red Cross Bay Area Emergency Response Team Assembly Tool
Watchfire is a simple and yet powerful system that initiates and tracks the process of building a volunteer response team with people who are geographically close to each other through phone calls and text message. This tool was developed by InSTEDD through a grant from Cisco in collaboration with the Bay Area Chapter of the Red Cross.
NYC Dept of Health ECHO Project
We worked with NYC DOHMH to build an application called ECHO : Electronic Communication for Health Operations. The ECHO project was focused on helping the NYC DOHMH improve the ability of their Community Outreach Teams (COT) to gather emergency preparedness and response-related data in the field.
NYC Health Department Uses GeoChat to Map Alcohol Ads
In the fall of 2010, NYC Health department and graduate-level students from Hunter College conducted a research on alcohol advertising visible at the street level in retail-dense blocks of NYC using GeoChat.
What is InSTEDD?
At InSTEDD, we envision a world where communities everywhere design and use technology to continuously improve their health, safety and development. This video takes you to our iLab (innovation lab) in Cambodia which helps us reach this vision.
