henry addo gfke 2014
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Hendy Addo presentation session 2 gfke 2014TRANSCRIPT
Henry Addo - @eyedol@ushahidi
What is Ushahidi?
Open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
Platform Community Movement
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.
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Social Impact• Enabling the wider coverage of crisis (and other
situations e.g. elections, MP performance) that would otherwise be unreported or under reported
• Creating an easy-to-use tool that is freely and instantly available to individuals, NGOs and other organizations allowing them to focus on mobilizing the content and the response
• Facilitate transparency and accountability by amplifying citizen voices with a consumer-focused tool, designed with areas with limited access in mind
• Developing ability for stakeholders in a particular situation to share and find data
“If it works in Africa,
it can work anywhere”
Maps
Over 20,000 deployments and counting
Election Monitoring
Allow citizen reporting during election Monitor Kenya referendum election
Citizen Journalism
Document human and ecological impact of the oil spill
Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt
Disaster Response
Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis Allowed Haitians to report location and needs
Social Revolutions
Map location of Occupy movements across the US
Monitor Arab Spring evolution in Egypt
Open SourceGNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL)
CrowdmapCrowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi ‘in the
cloud’ without having to install it on your own web server.
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
Haiti 2010
Thank you
ushahidi.com crowdmap.com