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    Crowdsourcing crisis information The document discusses Ushahidi, an open-source platform for crowdsourcing crisis information using mobile phones and the web. It provides three main goals: [1] allowing Kenyans to report violence using mobile phones, [2] creating an archive of reports, and [3] mapping where violence occurred. The document then outlines Ushahidi's history, benchmarks, lessons learned, and examples of how it has been used for election monitoring, natural disasters like Haiti, and local projects in Kenya tracking issues like health services and medicine stockouts.

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    Crowdsourcing crisis information The document discusses Ushahidi, an open-source platform for crowdsourcing crisis information using mobile phones and the web. It provides three main goals: [1] allowing Kenyans to report violence using mobile phones, [2] creating an archive of reports, and [3] mapping where violence occurred. The document then outlines Ushahidi's history, benchmarks, lessons learned, and examples of how it has been used for election monitoring, natural disasters like Haiti, and local projects in Kenya tracking issues like health services and medicine stockouts.

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    Crowdsourcing crisis information The document discusses Ushahidi, an open-source platform for crowdsourcing crisis information using mobile phones and the web. It provides three main goals: [1] allowing Kenyans to report violence using mobile phones, [2] creating an archive of reports, and [3] mapping where violence occurred. The document then outlines Ushahidi's history, benchmarks, lessons learned, and examples of how it has been used for election monitoring, natural disasters like Haiti, and local projects in Kenya tracking issues like health services and medicine stockouts.

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    Crowdsourcing crisis information The document discusses Ushahidi, an open-source platform for crowdsourcing crisis information using mobile phones and the web. It provides three main goals: [1] allowing Kenyans to report violence using mobile phones, [2] creating an archive of reports, and [3] mapping where violence occurred. The document then outlines Ushahidi's history, benchmarks, lessons learned, and examples of how it has been used for election monitoring, natural disasters like Haiti, and local projects in Kenya tracking issues like health services and medicine stockouts.

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    crowdsourcing crisis information

    mobile.crisis.reporting.
    (c)Yasuyoshi Chiba
    Our Goals
    • Create a way for everyday Kenyans to
    report incidents of violence that they saw
    using the tools they had (mobile phones)
    • Create an archive of news and reports
    around those same events
    • Show where the majority of the violence
    was happening
    Protesters gathered in groups and attempted to walk
    into the town centre; police fired live shots and tear gas
    canisters to disperse them. Three protesters were
    seriously injured and one shot dead. January

    A 13-year old boy was laid to rest next to his uncle´s house;
    the burial was attended by hundreds of residents who wailed
    and lit up bonfires. 17
    Police battled youths who set fire to roadblocks; the
    police shot indiscriminately, “targeting anyone on
    sight”; one man was shot in the stomach as he stood in
    front of his house.
    the
    default
    device
    Ushahidi Historical Benchmarks
    Jan 2008 - Initial deployment in the Kenya crisis

    Apr 2008 - Deployed Ushahidi to South Africa

    May 2008 - Won the NetSquared mashup challenge

    June 2008 - Began gathering developers for the open source rebuild

    July 2008 - Started the CrisisMappers group

    July 2008 - Ushahidi v2 development starts

    July 2008 - Receive initial funding from Humanity United

    Aug 2008 - Integration with FrontlineSMS and iPhone application designed

    Sep 2008 - Featured in Technoloy Review magazine


    Ushahidi Historical Benchmarks
    Sep 2008 - Ushahidi gets a new website

    Oct 2008 - Launched our alpha software, Ushahidi Engine v0.1 (“eldoret”)

    Nov 2008 - Founding member of the Open Mobile Consortium

    Nov 2008 - Deployed alpha version into DR Congo

    Nov 2008 - Translation features launched

    Nov 2008 - PeaceHeroes uses Ushahidi to find people who helped do positive things during
    and after the post-election violence in Kenya

    Dec 2008 - Featured in Forbes magazine and the BBC print/radio/TV

    Dec 2008 - Won a WeMedia GameChangers Award


    Ushahidi Historical Benchmarks
    Dec 2008 - Top 3 USAID mobile challenge finalist

    May 2009 - Release of the ‘Goma’ version of Ushahidi

    May 2009 - MacArthur Foundation funding

    Late 2009 - Major funding from Omidyar and Hivos Funding

    Dec 2009 - Release of ‘Mogadishu’ version

    Jan 2010 - Deployed for Haiti Earthquake (http://haiti.ushahidi.com)

    Jan-Feb 2010 - Ushahidi receives international recognition for role in Haiti

    Early 2010 - iHub gives Ushahidi physical office space in Kenya

    June 2010 - Plugin system addition (incorporates some key features from Haiti deployment)
    Free
    Open Source
    Software
    The Platform
    Open source software that can be:
    • Used out of the box: self-hosted or Ushahidi hosted

    • Customized: design and functionality

    • Integrated: strategy and with other web platforms

    Technical ability required varies


    • Install requires some technical ability

    Campaigning and promoting


    • The tool doesn’t do this
    FrontlineSMS+Ushahid
    i
    SMS => Cloud
    Data Types Input Methods Output Methods

    Citizen
    Generated Map

    News Media SMS Timeline


    Email
    Web form
    NGO data SMS Alerts
    API Ushahidi
    RSS Crisis Mapping
    Government MMS Engine RSS
    twitter
    Direct input
    Public APIs Email
    Flickr
    YouTube
    Twitter
    Early Ushahidi
    Deployments
    Lessons
    • Mapping accuracy and value of geo-location
    • Data poisoning - Antagonists using the tool
    • Verification is difficult, but can be achieved with
    hyperlocal involvement + NGOs
    • Create a feedback loop - SMS & RSS alerts to
    mobiles and emails
    • Offline, online and mobile strategy
    What
    are we
    trying to
    achieve?
    Ensuring that others don’t
    have to start from scratch,
    like we did…
    And others have used
    Ushahidi innovative ways!
    Ushahidi around the world
    Crowdsourcing Election
    Information
    • Election monitoring has been most popular use of the platform

    • Election Monitoring Guides on Community Resources page


    Election Monitoring
    Haiti Earthquake and
    evolution of Ushahidi
    2 Hours after the Haiti earthquake
    4 Hours after the earthquake
    1 week after the earthquake
    “The technology
    community has set up
    interactive maps to
    help us identify needs
    and target resources.”

    10 days after the earthquake


    US State Department
    Red Cross
    FEMA
    OFDA
    US Marine Corps
    US Coast Guard
    SOUTHCOM
    UNDP
    WFP
    Int’ Medical Corps
    AIDG
    USAID
    Newer Ushahidi
    Deployments
    Survivors Connect
    Local Examples:
    How are people in
    Kenya using Ushahidi?
    Mapping Art and Culture
    in Kenya
    Mapping HIV, AIDS & TB
    Services
    Tracking Medicine Stock Outs
    •Ensuring access to essential
    medicines

    •“Pill Check Week” mapped


    stock-outs of meds in Kenya,
    Malawi, Uganda and Zambia

    •Phase 2 is currently under


    development
    Building Bridge’s Peace
    Mapping Campaign
    Citizen Reporting in Kibera
    Community Sharing
    •Aggregates news, videos, photos
    and SMS from community
    •Reports are mapped on the Map
    Kibera map

    •Editorial/Advisory Board
    •6 Kibera residents working with
    local CBOs

    •How is this useful?


    •Monitoring on-goings in Kibera
    •Service delivery
    •Telling “other” stories of Kibera
    Internews: Connecting
    Kenyan Journalists
    Way Forward...

    • Growing the community that supports Ushahidi


    • > Tech features & Dev. – Smartphones (Android,
    Iphone S60, winmobile) J2ME
    • Geo-RSS
    • Freedom Fone integration - Audio =>SMS
    • SwiftRiver
    Thank You

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