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Nathaniel Manning. (c)Yasuyoshi Chiba. Founding Team. MIT Tech Review ’ s Top 35 under 35. FastCompany ’ s ‘ Most creative People ’. TED Senior Fellow, Pop!Tech Fellow. TIME Top 50 websites. World Economic Forum ICT Global Council. What is Ushahidi?.
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Founding Team MIT Tech Review’s Top 35 under 35. FastCompany’s ‘Most creative People’ TED Senior Fellow, Pop!Tech Fellow. TIME Top 50 websites World Economic Forum ICT Global Council
What is Ushahidi? Open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. We build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. Platform Community Movement ushahidi.com
Massive Deployments March 2011 - 4,000+ reports Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
Free and open source SMS gateway for Android Mobile the default device Whitelabeling of Android and iOS apps
Lessons Crowdsourcing platform must be easy to deploy, intuitive to use, simple to localize and customize “A map is only as useful as the process and people to make it happen.” -George Chamales, Rogue Genius slidesha.re/ushahidi_lessons
Pothole Theory (CCby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462)
Citizen Journalism Communities By the City / For the City (NYC) Integration of social media into placemaking practices, which are community centered, encouraging public participation, collaboration and transparency. December 2010 Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt harassmap.com urbandesignweek.org
Election Monitoring May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 views Allow citizen reporting during election August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 views Monitor Kenya referendum election votereport.in uchaguzi.co.ke
“The crowdsourced information keeps people aware...in which regular news outlets are often too bulky or slow to act...” - FastCompany
Thank You ushahidi.com swiftly.org crowdmap.com
We have a Problem We are pummeled by information 250 million Tweets/day How do we find the one important drop of info?
SwiftRiver is a curation tool that combines search with the power of the crowd Computer Intelligence The Human Hunch + Curate. Filter. Collaborate.
CrowdSource the Filter Real-time information. Processed into a river. Filtered by the crowd. Visualized & organized.
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