The system built organisational partnerships with world leading foundations that focusing on advancing human rights, citizen engagement, international development etc. These organisations included CISCO, google.org, USAID etc.
This system seems to rely upon Blogs@NTU to keep their system updated. They also rely upon plugins for social media in order to have their annotations shared on those respective platforms.
The website platform is collaborate with other Ebola response anthropology initiatives in US, Europe and West Africa. As well as, the Emergency Ebola Anthropology Network and the francophone SHS Ebola Network. These networks support to uploading papers and resources onto the Platform. Besides, the Royal Anthropological Institute is their non-academic partner.
It uses RSS, and shows some coding that an individual with any coding background would likely understand. I have absolutely no coding experience.
This health registry relies heavily on collaborations and other organizations. There is actually an entire section of the website dedicated to listing all the organizations that collaborate and work together in order to provide this information for the registry. The registry is a collaborative effort between the US Department of Health and Human Services and NYC.
There are 3 advisory groups that work with WTC health Registry, they are the Community Advisory Board, the Labor Advisory Board and the Scientific Advisory Board. The following organizations are also listed as organizations that this registry depends on for research, number and data:
Government
Scientific
The system has partners including UNAIDS, a branch of UNISEF, International Medical Corps, Medecins Du Monde, AAHI, and other humanitarian organizations. The support of these groups both financially and with the user community is important to maintain the app as an active site for research and development. The technical aspects of the site also heavily rely on the data storage method, which is not mentioned but would require massive amounts of memory as well as safeguards to prevent data loss on the app servers.
The web platform is supported by the organization Land of Opportunity. Land of Opportunity partners with several sponsors, including a local organization called NOVAC (New Orleans Video Access Center). Other partners include Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, Center for Social Media, Louisiana Justice Institute, PATOIS, Survivors Village, New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice, and Video Veracity. These organizations represent funding and on-the-ground workers for Land of Opportunity
They also have a fantastic list of these on their website:
Alliance for Global Justice is an organization that seeks to achieve social change and economic justice by helping to build a stronger more unified grassroots movement.
Arts and Democracy builds the momentum of a growing movement that links arts and culture, participatory democracy, and social justice.
Cowbird is a community of storytellers and the beautiful platform that we partnered with to collect and display stories in our first year.
Coney Island Generational Gap is a youth group in Coney Island that organizes work programs, arts opportunities and media courses for more than one hundred youth in the neighborhood.
El Centro is a storefront immigrant day worker center in Port Richmond, Staten Island.
Housing is a Human Right is a creative storytelling project that aims to help connect diverse communities around housing, land, and the dignity of a place to call home.
Interoccupy.Net fosters communication across the Occupy movement.
Land of Opportunity is an ongoing trans-media documentary that captures the struggle to rebuild New Orleans, one of America’s most beloved and emblematic cities. We partnered with Land of Opportunity on Katrina/Sandy.
New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years.
New York Writers Coalition provides free creative writing workshops throughout New York City for people from groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society.
Occupy Sandy is a mutual aid network responding to the ongoing crisis in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Parsons: New School for Design has been a pioneer in art and design higher education since its founding in 1896.
Project Hope offered free and confidential supportive counseling and public education services to Hurricane Sandy disaster survivors in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester Counties in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
Research Action Design (RAD) uses community-led research, transformative media organizing, technology development, and collaborative design to build the power of grassroots social movements.
The Beacon School is a public magnet high school on the Upper West Side that offers an inquiry-based college preparatory program with technology and arts infused throughout the curriculum.
The Hudson School is a private school in Hoboken, New Jersey, that provides intellectually inquisitive students in grades 5-12 with a rigorous and relevant college-preparatory education.
The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices–including the text and phone technology that Sandy Storyline uses.
YANA (You Are Never Alone) is a worker training center and hurricane relief hub in Rockaway Park.
The system relies on partnerships for funding and credibility- IBM, capital factory,telemental health institute, health wildcatters. It relies on a patient provider relationship and a provider-provider relationship.
As mentioned above, Cloud9 has partnership with Capital Factory, IBM, Telemental Health Institute and Health Wildcatters. But for a system to work, it is more important that patients, providers and organizations have come and work together.