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Contents 1 Situation Assessment/Reports 2 Governmental 3 Technical 4 Dedicated Information Resources 4.1 Tools Summary 4.2 Meta Information (Lists of Resources, Tools, etc.) 4.3 Organizational Resources 4.4 Live Updates 4.5 Reports 4.6 Flood Maps 4.7 CrisisMapping (Incident Reporting, Needs, Updates) 4.8 Resource Finders (Non-Map) 4.9 People Finders 5 Memorials/Documentation 6 Relief Reports 6.1 Websites 6.2 Sites Dedicated to specific areas 6.2.1 Tribal Areas 6.3 Individual Reports from specific Areas 6.3.1 Sukkur 6.3.2 Swat 6.4 First-Person Reports 6.5 News 6.6 Political Parties, Organizations 6.7 Religious Organizations 6.8 NGO Updates 7 Topical News and Reports 7.1 Left/Progressive Involvement 7.2 Youth Engagement 7.3 New Engagement 7.4 Use of Technology 7.5 Hopeful/Positive Side 7.6 Crisis in National Psyche 7.7 Corporate Involvement 7.8 Damage Assessment 7.9 Social Crisis 7.10 Issues in Relief 8 Analyses and Op-Eds 9 Multimedia 9.1 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (appeal) 9.2 SARelief (online campaign vignette) 9.3 Media Photo Essays 10 Intellectual and Cultural Responses 10.1 Poetry 11 General Information 11.1 On Pakistan 11.2 Pakistan Crisis Commons Resources (Beyond Immediate Crisis) 11.3 Development Resources 11.4 Global Technological Activism

Situation Assessment/ReportsEdit

see Floods 2010 Sitrep

GovernmentalEdit

• National Disaster Management Authority - Govt of Pakistan
• FATA Disaster Management Authority: http://www.fdma.gov.pk/
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Authority: http://www.pdma.gov.pk/
• Punjab Flood Relief & Rehabilitation: http://floodrelief.punjab.gov.pk/
• Sindh Flood Relief & Rehabilitation:

http://www.pdma.gos.pk/

Currently, this is being flagged by Google as a harmful site

TechnicalEdit

• Geological Survey of Pakistan: http://www.gsp.gov.pk/
• Pakistani Metereological Institute: http://www.pakmet.com.pk/

Original Monsoon Outlook (June 21):

http://www.pakmet.com.pk/MON&TC/Monsoon/monsoon(2010).html

Dedicated Information ResourcesEdit

Tools SummaryEdit

• Sahana Pakistan Floods Response (Sahana Eden): http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/index

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sahana-Pakistan-Flood-Response-2010/145586795481844?v=info

• PakReport (uShahidi): http://pakreport.org/
• Google Crisis Response - Pakistan Floods:
  • Google Person Finder (in English and Urdu)
  • Google Resource Finder
• Project Epic: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~starbird/pkfloods_map_byTime.html

Meta Information (Lists of Resources, Tools, etc.)Edit

• Wikipedia article on 2010 Pakistan Floods
• Crisis Commons: Main Page
  • Groups Involved
  • Individuals Involved
  • Resources
  • Media
  • Tasks
  • Background
• Crisis Wiki: http://www.crisiswiki.org/Pakistan_Floods_2010
• Google Crisis Response - Pakistan Floods
• P-FAN (Pakistan: Flood Action Now) A facebook page dedicated to coordinating awareness, fund raising and supporting relief efforts in response to this humanitarian crisis
• Floods In Pakistan
• ICT4Peace Inventorisation Wiki Page: http://inventory.ict4peace.org/Pakistan-Floods

Organizational ResourcesEdit

• World Food Program: http://www.wfp.org/crisis/pakistan
• ReliefWeb: http://reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=FL-2010-000141-PAK
• Oxfam page: Pakistan Floods 2010 - Oxfam
• Red Cross Canada Pakistan Floods - Red Cross
• PakResponse, from One Response: One Response

Live UpdatesEdit

Twitter tags

• #pkflood OR #pkfloods

Dedicated Twitter Accounts

• The CSPPP maintains the Twitter Account "PakistanDR", dedicated to "Pakistan Relief", which channels information about the crisis.

Live Social Streams

• SARelief.com has a consolidated live social stream, (mainly from Twitter for now) following the Twitter Hashtags #Pkfloods #Pkflood #Crisiscommons #Pakistan as well as key Social Media reporters: http://www.sarelief.com/liveupdates/
• Canalblogs.com has another live social stream: http://pfloods.canalblog.com/

ReportsEdit

See section on Relief Reports below

Flood MapsEdit

• One Response Pakistan (Has excellent maps)
• MapAction
• Flood Maps at LUMS

CrisisMapping (Incident Reporting, Needs, Updates)Edit

• Pakistan Flood Incident Reporting System based on uShahidi
• CitizensofPakistan.org's Pakistan Floods 2010 Information and Relief Wiki (nice clean list of resources and ways to donate and help

Resource Finders (Non-Map)Edit

• Google Resource Finder

People FindersEdit

• Google Person Finder (in Urdu and English, for Pakistan floods)
• Sahana has a People Finder

Memorials/DocumentationEdit

• http://www.ontheground.pk/

Relief ReportsEdit

WebsitesEdit

• http://floodreliefupdates.blogspot.com/

Sites Dedicated to specific areasEdit

Tribal AreasEdit

Voice for Peace, based in Bajaur Agency, maintains the following Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=408153525623

Individual Reports from specific AreasEdit

SukkurEdit

• AUGUST 18, 2010 http://progpak.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/update-from-sukkur/

SwatEdit

• TUE, 24 AUG 2010 - 15:44 Oxfam worker: http://blogs.oxfam.org/en/blog/10-08-24-pakistan-floods-delivering-aid-foot-upper-swat-valley

First-Person ReportsEdit

• Collection by Chris Anderson of TED:

Powerful first-person reports from Pakistan, from TED’s Chris Anderson: http://blog.ted.com/2010/09/06/powerful-first-person-reports-from-pakistan-from-teds-chris-anderson/?utm_medium=on.ted.com-copypaste&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=awesm-site

NewsEdit

• Dedicated Sites:
  • BBC News: Pakistan Floods

Google

Yahoo

• 20 AUGUST 2010, Newsline Magazine's "Blog Row": Flood Relief is Happening in Pakistan, Talib Qizilbash

http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2010/08/flood-relief-is-happening-in-pakistan/

• Aug. 20, 2010 1:15 PM PDT, Mother Jones: Pakistan: Corporations and Flood Relief, Jen Phillips, Mother Jones

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/pakistan-flood-corporations-donate

• August 12, 2010, Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign

http://www.ptudc.org/content/view/317/43/

• August 12, 2010, from Charsadda, in The Express Tribune

http://tribune.com.pk/story/38473/charsadda-lies-in-ruins/

• Wednesday, August 11, 2010: Expat Indians and Pakistanis join hands for flood relief

http://www.amankiasha.com/detail_news.asp?id=246

• August 8th, 2010, The Express Tribune: Hope floats as Karachi’s young blood dips in to help

http://tribune.com.pk/story/37061/hope-floats-as-karachi’s-young-blood-dips-in-to-help/

• Date unclear, The Express Tribune: Edhi begs for flood victims

http://tribune.com.pk/story/31969/edhi-begs-for-flood-victims/

Political Parties, OrganizationsEdit

Labour Party of Pakistan

• http://www.laborpakistan.org/news58.htm (general info on the Labour Party's site at http://www.laborpakistan.org/
• Labor Relief Campaign:

http://labourreliefcampaign.blogspot.com/

MQM (Via the Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee):

• http://www.allaboutmqm.org/photo/photo/listTagged?tag=flood

Religious OrganizationsEdit

News

http://tribune.com.pk/story/37112/religious-outfits-mount-massive-relief-operations/

NGO UpdatesEdit

• 03 September 2010, Response to Flood by Pakistan National Committee (PNC) of IUCN Members: http://iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/asia/asia_where_work/pakistan/pnc/pnc_response/
• PCP: http://www.pcp.org.pk/newsdetails.php?nid=11

Topical News and ReportsEdit

Left/Progressive InvolvementEdit

• Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal & Progressive Organizations doing Flood Relief need Your support, Nikhil Aziz on the Grass International website: http://grassrootsonline.org/news/blog/pakistan-floods-secular-liberal-progressive-organizations-doing-flood-relief-need-your-sup

Youth EngagementEdit

• August 8th, 2010, The Express Tribune: Hope floats as Karachi’s young blood dips in to help

http://tribune.com.pk/story/37061/hope-floats-as-karachi’s-young-blood-dips-in-to-help/

New EngagementEdit

• Pakistan floods: How new networks of Pakistanis are mobilizing to help, Issam Ahmad in the Christian Science Monitor (reproduced on Yahoo at http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100819/wl_csm/320413)

Use of TechnologyEdit

Please also see coverage from previous crises here <>.

• http://www.aaj.tv/2010/08/flood-relief-and-the-blogosphere/
• http://tribune.com.pk/story/39182/rs1-7m-collected-on-facebook/

Hopeful/Positive SideEdit

• Pakistan floods: How new networks of Pakistanis are mobilizing to help, Issam Ahmad in the Christian Science Monitor (reproduced on Yahoo at http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100819/wl_csm/320413)
• 20 AUGUST 2010, Newsline Magazine's "Blog Row": Flood Relief is Happening in Pakistan, Talib Qizilbash

http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2010/08/flood-relief-is-happening-in-pakistan/

• August 8th, 2010, The Express Tribune: Hope floats as Karachi’s young blood dips in to help

http://tribune.com.pk/story/37061/hope-floats-as-karachi’s-young-blood-dips-in-to-help/

• Stories you're not hearing from Chris, curator of TED:

http://tedchris.posterous.com/tag/pakistanfloods

Crisis in National PsycheEdit

See Angst 2010

Corporate InvolvementEdit

• Aug. 20, 2010 1:15 PM PDT, Mother Jones: Pakistan: Corporations and Flood Relief, Jen Phillips, Mother Jones

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/pakistan-flood-corporations-donate

Damage AssessmentEdit

Chronological order:

• September 1, 2010: Floods caused losses worth $43b: Gilani, Express Tribune: http://tribune.com.pk/story/45208/floods-caused-losses-worth-43b-gilani/

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said the unprecedented floods have caused losses worth $43 billion to the country.
Addressing the federal cabinet, the prime minister said around 1,000 bridges and 4,000 km of roads were damaged by the water.
He added that Wapda and Pepco alone have suffered losses of Rs13 billion due to the natural catastrophe which has also left 20 million people dependant on the government for help.

Social CrisisEdit

• September 3, 2010, Social crisis stalks Pakistan, Prof. SNEHAL SHINGAVI, Socialist Worker: http://socialistworker.org/2010/09/03/social-crisis-stalks-pakistan

Issues in ReliefEdit

• PakResponse (OneResponse Pakistan) has running updates: http://www.pakresponse.info/index.php?id=1
• 02 Sep, 2010, Flood victims' resentment hurting aid effort: ICRC, Dawn, http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/12-flood+victims+resentment+hurting+aid+effort+icrc--bi-01
• 01 Sep, 2010, Discrimination in aid, Dawn Editorial: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/editorial/discrimination-in-aid-190

Analyses and Op-EdsEdit

• http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/13/this_is_the_worst_catastrophe_to
• http://zavia.pk/2010/09/12/imran-khan-ke-pukaar-remains-silent-for-many/#more-1945
• Analysis of Relief & Donations related to Pakistan Floods 2010 by Anas Abbas (Note: Strong POV)
• Floods devastation in Pakistan - a system in decay aggravates human disaster, Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign
• Pakistan: State Controlled Floods'', International Socialists, Pakistan
• Why we should care" by Ethan Casey
• Who cares?, Sami Shah (standup comedian), in The Express Tribune

http://tribune.com.pk/story/40546/who-cares/

• Why the Unfolding Disaster in Pakistan Should Concern You, Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley, Posted: August 19, 2010 07:36 PM in The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-the-unfolding-disaste_b_688414.html

MultimediaEdit

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (appeal)Edit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-e3WfJMld8

SARelief (online campaign vignette)Edit

Media Photo EssaysEdit

• 26 August 2010 10.39 BST, Eyewitness: Flood refugees under canvas, Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/picture/2010/aug/26/pakistan-flood-pakistan
• 13 August 2010 14.14 BST, Pakistan floods, guardian.co.uk: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/aug/13/pakistan-flooding

Intellectual and Cultural ResponsesEdit

PoetryEdit

General InformationEdit

On PakistanEdit

As always, the first places to look for live information about events and updates in Pakistan include:

• Twitter tags: #pkflood OR #pkfloods or #helppakistan
• Twitter tags: #Pakistan

Bloggers.pk, the main blog aggregator for Pakistan:

http://www.bloggers.pk

The Metroblogs:

• Metroblogging Islamabad
• Metroblogging Karachi
• Metroblogging Lahore

For media, CrisisCommons.org has a wonderful list of links (including International/NGO news & info and NGO Blogs):

http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Pakistan/2010_Floods/media

Pakistan Crisis Commons Resources (Beyond Immediate Crisis)Edit

• Crisis Wiki on this site
• Twitter hashtags:

#Pakistan

#HELPPAKISTAN

• SA Relief is a dedicated organization focusing on crisis management in South Asia. It is also one of the organizations supporting this wiki. They are maintaining:
• The CSPPP maintains the Twitter Account "PakistanDR", dedicated to "Pakistan Relief", which channels information about the crisis.

Development ResourcesEdit

• http://developmentpakistan.blogspot.com/

• One blog that discussed the issues of low-cost housing and water & sanitation in previous times of crisis was Muskin (http://muskin.blogspot.com/) is a blog that discusses "Low Cost Housing Technologies for the Developing Nations", by "An Architect, Urban Designer with a keen interest in the humanitarian aspects of design and planning." He says that "Urban development in developing nations and Sustainable planning are issues of particular interest to me."

Global Technological ActivismEdit

See Crisis Commons#Global Technological Activism