OpenAid

easy, open posting of needs & offers, via social media. Post or tweet/text us with tag eg #openaidCITY & we detect, help responses. by @tmccormick, @COVIDaccel

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@JonathanHillis there's #SeeClickFix as @ryanrz noted, but like most related eg 311 svcs is an interface to govt. Imo there's great oppty and need for a more decentralized, mutualized, open, multi-sector hub approach—I explore in @OpenAidNet; maybe great public good for @cabindotcity to explore?

[Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆) @JonathanHillis]

Has anyone built a "neighborhood fix-it app" that lets you go around and take pictures of broken things in your neighborhood's public spaces, create bounties for them, and pay people out when they get fixed?

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@RoofLesser @K_CrowleyLA let's imagine & prototype the community info/services hub we want to see. We could self-organize better interface & model, I believe; why only hope on 911 & 211 etc? See @OpenAidNet project exploring this. c/@GroundWatchNews @renaud_pdx @PDXStResponse #streetresponse #mutualaid

[. @RoofLesser]

@K_CrowleyLA The whole LAHSA interface is closed doors from our perspective. 🚪
Example:
PATH’s Lease Up website enthusiastically engages property owners & buildings but if you’re unhoused? 🤷‍♀️call 211?🤷‍♂️

[Kathleen Crowley @K_CrowleyLA]

There’s no shared vision/coordination/strategy or collaboration. We’re failing wildly at a cost to all. But most importantly & tragically at a grave cost to everyone who is unhoused & unhoused people are being refused participation in it all. That should be unfathomable.

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@renaud_pdx @PoMoMagazine @PDXStResponse @OpenAidNet @GroundWatchNews @karinapdx @Mingus4Portland @JoAnnPDX @mkaiasand @sarahforpdx yes, expected. #OpenAid concept hypothesizes that it may take few resources to establish workable protocols that can engage the much wider resources in the community, by decentralizing. Eg, we can live-prototype a hub with Twitter, SMS+@twilio, & Discord or Slack, for tiny $.

[Pere Ubu @PdxUbu]

@tmccormick @PoMoMagazine @PDXStResponse @OpenAidNet @GroundWatchNews @karinapdx @Mingus4Portland @JoAnnPDX @mkaiasand @sarahforpdx You may want to look at what Transform911 out of U Chicago is doing on alternatives to 911. Expect fierce constant resistance from unions to funding non-government options.

[Portland Monthly @PoMoMagazine]

Should paramedics and social workers be sent to crisis calls involving homelessness, instead of police? That's what @PDXStResponse wants, but the path ahead has some obstacles.
https://t.co/5snuKqCRBD

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@JoAnnPDX I respect & support your work & #PortlandStreetResponse. Also, for over year, I've tried to share to you a model for broad aid response, developed w/@pplscouncil, building on stalled PDX #311implementationPlan; never had response. Can you suggest how to reach you regarding this?

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@JoAnnPDX how about rethinking not just 911 response, but the model of 911 line itself, perhaps combining with PDX's long-running/stalled 411 relaunch project? https://t.co/sei4uQCuaL c/@OpenAidNet #openaid

[Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty @JoAnnPDX]

We need to dramatically change policing to ensure its community centered & less aggressive. We need to continue developing alternatives to police to ensure 911 calls get the right response. We need truth & reconciliation & we need culture change from PPB. We need accountability.

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@sarahforpdx still, I think the People ('s Republic) of Portland could helpfully think more about what's possible to do independently of police, or govt. Eg, the concept of @OpenAidNet is a generative, possibilist way to rethink or alternately approach it. Let's not just bang on the same wall

[@sarahforpdx.bsky.social @sarahforpdx]

This is a very good thread. It's also clear that this all boils down to the Portland Police Union vs. The People of Portland in terms of how public safety is funded, constituted, and overseen.

[Tim McCormick @tmccormick]

@DKThomp @AlecMacGillis what if communities had an open 'X11' hub, call it #OpenAid, to receive requests/inquiries of all kinds, share to various parties for help, incl civic & mutual aid, lets you exclude police. @OpenAidnet project I started explores the idea using social media https://t.co/Hv1XWKXyOS

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I'll end where I started: Policing is a bundle.

The challenge before the Defund movement is separating the most toxic parts of the bundle without destroying services whose abolition will doom the project, politically.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

How do you replace a popular 911 service w/ millions of annual users? How much political pain is endurable if a city's defunded—or "abolished"—crime enforcement agency routinely fails to respond to many thousands of emergency calls from its scared (or just paranoid) citizens?

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Think of "dialing 9-1-1" as a service with 20 million customers and—this surprised me—extremely high user satisfaction.

Among those who contact the police, 80% of all ethnic groups say police "responded promptly"/"behaved properly" and most say they “improved the situation.”

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

The Defund Challenge:

Every year, 20 million people contact the police to report a possible crime or to set up a block watch. Let’s say you literally abolish the police. Who’s responding to 20m calls where the voter on the other end of the line sees what s/he considers a crime?

[OpenAid @OpenAidNet]

@WheelerGoogling forward requests to #OpenAid, allow community-sources answers & responses? https://t.co/FSCrw6lHEz

[Not Ted Wheeler Googling @WheelerGoogling]

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