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        "DESCRIPTION": "We've started! RNI met with Boulder CRO, Greg Guibert, and several community-based organizations to provide technical advice on citizen engagement; assess existing resilience capacity and challenges; and generally get the lay of the land! Boulder is host to a very robust volunteer community. Would you like to know more about who's doing what in Boulder? You can follow groups we met with and those sharing important information by using this Twitter list: https://twitter.com/Shadrocker/lists/rni-boulder.",
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        "DESCRIPTION": "We met with briefly with the Rockefeller Foundation to deliver our findings based on 6 months of research and stakeholder discussions. We are proposing to create an original pipeline of local resilience data in each city by using the technology behind CrisisNET (http://crisis.net). This pipeline will combine data from a wide range of sources and be publicly available. RNI will work directly with communities and CROs to build upon this pipeline for their own needs; produce analysis as a convening point for better decision-making; and turn this knowledge into action. The pipeline will also be available to all Rockefeller Grantees and partners to inform their program planning and or as an input to their analytical work or tools.",
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        "DESCRIPTION": "In Boulder, Colorado, RNI had it's first opportunity to begin meeting with city officials. Boulder has always been a progressive city with regards to sustainability and environmental stewardship. Now, as they recover from historic flooding in 2013 _ just three years after experiencing the state's most financially destructive wildfire in history _ Boulder is once again leaning forward to develop communications tools that will better connect the city to the needs of the citizens. This introductory meeting allowed us to learn more about Boulder's needs and begin brainstorming for the future. The City has already made some attempts at citizen engagement through technology but are looking for ways to increase participation. In my time in the area I've found a wide variety of existing, community-based, organizations that focus on nature and environmental causes. I believe that tapping into these existing groups will provide this increase.",
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        "DESCRIPTION": "A meeting at the World Economic Forum gave RNI the opportunity to meet with organizations who are finding new ways to leverage the role of big data for improving security and resilience to catastrophic events. This meeting gave us the opportunity to meet counterparts from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs who graciously connected us with valuable datasets they currently maintain for Colombia. We also met with our Rockefeller counterparts and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to brainstorm about how they could partner with RNI in the U.S.",
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        "DESCRIPTION": "Ushahidi and the RNI Director met our counterparts at the Rockefeller Foundation and the 100 Resilient Cities challenge to discuss which cities we should focus on. Our goal is to create a broad suite of tools and methodologies to eventually serve a wide variety of cities. However, to begin with, we choose a sub-set of 'candidate cities' from the current short-list of 32. You can see our selection criteria and analysis on Github: github.com/Shadrock/RNI_select",
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