The first application of this mapping system is the mapping of the entire district of Gentilly, a severely flood-damaged area in New Orleans, home to over 40,000 residents pre-Katrina. The project's public mapping of over 12,000 homes is the most current, and comprehensive look at the rebuilding progress in the city.

This project hinges on providing public information that’s timely, accurate, and continuously updated. Rebuilding moves faster by determining accurate need and attracting the necessary assistance, not from government, but from neighbors arriving—that can be local citizens and "unmet friends" coming in from anywhere to lend a helping hand.

Jett's research employs organizational science and digital technologies to create an organizational framework that allows for an "open" participation in disaster recovery. Developing these tools and applying organizational models may help advance the understanding of how to manage network-based community participation, in conditions where strict bureaucratic and market controls are absent or infeasible. “I am addressing the here and now, while looking ahead,” Jett explained. “How should residents and volunteers respond and organize themselves after a disaster?”