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Ushahidi presentation from Internet and 21st Century Revolutions in Madrid on April 5, 2001
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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
History"Ushahidi", which means "testimony" in Swahili,
was a website that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya
after post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008.
legacy.ushahidi.com
“If it works in Africa,
it can work anywhere”
- Erik Hersman, co-founder of Ushahidi
whiteafrican.com
Election Monitoring
May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 viewsAllow citizen reporting during election
August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 viewsMonitor Kenya referendum election
votereport.in uchaguzi.co.ke
Citizen Journalism
May 2010 - 3397 reports, 406,715 viewsDocument human and ecological impact of the oil spill
December 2010 - 319 reports, 156,859 viewsHelp bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt
harassmap.com oillspill.labucketbrigade.org
Disaster Response
March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 viewsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
January 2010 - 3,584 reports, 500,000 viewsAllowed Haitians to report location and needs
sinsai.info/ushahidi haiti.ushahidi.com
Post Haiti“The 2010 Haiti earthquake response will be remembered as the moment
when the level of access to mobile and online communication enabled a kind of collective intelligence to emerge.”
- Disaster Relief 2.0, the United Nations
“Haiti showed everyone that it is going to be crucial to adopt and use these technologies to make humanitarian
work better, faster and more efficient.”- Adele Waugaman, senior director of technology for United
Nations and Vodafone
bit.ly/disaster_20
CrowdmapCrowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi ‘in the cloud’ without having to install it on your own web server.
crowdmap.com
Plugins
apps.ushahidi.com
Flexible plugin architecture allowing custom functionality to be developed independently from the core application.
SMSSyncSMSSync is a simple SMS to HTTP sync utility, that
turns any Android phone into a local SMS gateway that sends incoming messages to any Ushahidi deployment.
smssync.ushahidi.com
Checkins (CI)Quick location update which can include an optional
photo and description, sharing “I am here”.
bit.ly/checkins_purpose
iPhone / iPadUshahidi mobile application for the iPhone and iPad
bit.ly/ushahidi_ios_app
Stand-By Task Force (SBTF)“We are the people who map for three hours at night
instead of watching TV. We are the people who wake up early before work, log into Skype and add a few reports to the map. We are the people who may drop everything to map for four days. We are communications and friends.”
- Heather Leson, SBTF volunteer
standbytaskforce.com
Egyptian Revolution
u-shahid.org
“The use of social media and Facebook in particular is increasingly enabling the youth to engage in a political scene that normally opts for the
physical elimination of the opposition. Blogs and Facebook groups are clearly taking the place made empty by the lack of a real political debate in Egypt, and are more increasingly emerging as an alternative political scene
where a discussion on democracy and human rights is still possible.”- Development and Institutionalization Support Center (DISC)
Egypt Election Map
u-shahid.org/live
“To monitor the elections by allowing people to send SMS, Twitter messages, Facebook comments, voice mail, e-mail and web-submission to the U-Shahid (Anta Shahid –
“You witness” in Arabic) and by creating a combined system of bounded and
unbounded crowdsourcing.”- Development and Institutionalization
Support Center (DISC)#u_shahid
Civil Resistance Map
u-shahid.org/cr
“They say that history is written by the victors. But now, before the
victors win, there is a fresh chance to scream out, with a text message that will not vanish. What we would know about what passed between
Turks and Armenians, between Germans and Jews — and indeed would it have happened at all — if each of them had had a chance to
declare and be heard saying: ʻI was here, and this is what
happened to me?ʼ”- Anand Giridharadas, New York Times
journalist#jan25
Constitutional Amendments Map
u-shahid.org/19mar
#19mar
Other Egypt Maps
Libya Crisis
libyacrisismap.net
The Libya Crisis Map deployed by request of UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Libya Information Flow
libyacrisismap.net
Lessons
slidesha.re/ushahidi_lessons
“A map is only as useful as the process and people to make
it happen.”-George Chamales, Rogue Genius
Crowdsourcing platform must be easy to deploy, intuitive to use,
simple to localize and customize
Deployments
Volunteer
Translators Mappers
TestersDevelopers
ushahidi.com/contact-us
Team
Quote“We are undergoing a major technology paradigm shift.
Citizens that were once only passive recipients of information, are now contributors to the story.
In the case of crisis mapping, it's the people on the ground that best know the local situation.
Enabling a two-way conversation between affected communities and support groups can allow a faster,
more effective response.
The key point is that affected groups have a voice, we only need to listen.”
-Dale Zak, Ushahidi mobile developer
Questions?
ushahidi.com crowdmap.com