Funding and support

PetaJakarta.org is a University of Wollongong Global Challenges Project that addresses the challenge of
Sustaining Coastal and Marine Zones. It is part of a Joint Pilot Study with the Jakarta Emergency
Management Agency (BPBD DKI Jakarta) and the Jakarta Provincial Government (Provinsi DKI Jakarta) and
Twitter Inc.
The project is supported financially by the UOW SMART Infrastructure Facility, the UOW Faculty of
Engineering and Information Sciences; the UOW Global Challenges Project Fund and Strategic Fund; and
the UOW Innovation and Research Development Fund.
Aspects of the project receive financial support from the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). Funding
support also comes from the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR).
PetaJakarta.org is also supported by the SMART OSGeo Lab as a project of the SMART research group
'GeoSocial Intelligence for Urban Liveability and Resilience'.
The project receives technical support from Twitter Engineering via a Twitter #DataGrant. In April 2014,
the PetaJakarta.org team was awarded one of six Twitter #DataGrants. The grant complements and
supports the project by providing access to a historical archive of Tweets from Jakarta for analysis.
(Further reading: http://bit.ly/PetaJakartaDataGrant)

Operational Information
PetaJakarta.org is an open source project to collect and map Tweets about flooding situations in real-time
from millions of Twitter users in Jakarta.
PetaJakarta.org is a research partnership between the SMART Infrastructure Facility of University of
Wollongong, BPBD DKI Jakarta, and Twitter Inc.
PetaJakarta.org is used by citizens to see the flood situation in real-time
PetaJakarta.org is used by BPBD DKI Jakarta to improve their response to flooding and complement their
existing emergency management systems
PetaJakarta.org uses an open-source framework called CogniCity.info, developed by the SMART
Infrastructure Facility, to collect and map tweets about flooding in real-time. The PetaJakarta.org platform
runs on open source software known as CogniCity a GeoSocial Intelligence Framework developed by the
UOWs SMART Infrastructure Facility. CogniCity allows data to be collected and disseminated through
location-enabled mobile devices using the social media network Twitter. (Further reading:
http://bit.ly/Geosocial-Intelligence)
The data created by PetaJakarta.org about flooding in real-time across the city will be available after the
monsoon under an open data license for anyone to access and download for non-commercial use.

How to use PetaJakarta.org

Millions of Twitter users in Jakarta can participate in this public safety initiative in three easy steps on their
mobile device:
1. Turn on location services or add a geo-tag by clicking on the pin icon when composing a Tweet on
your iOS/Android mobile device.
2. Take or add a photo by clicking on the camera icon when composing a Tweet on your iOS/Android
mobile device.

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3. Send the Tweet to @petajkt with the #banjir hashtag and a short description of the flooding situation.
All Tweets in the correct format will be displayed live on the map located at www.petajakarta.org for any
citizens use as well as on the map in BPBDs incident control room as an additional real-time disaster
response tool.

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