Ushahidi presentation at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s OER Grantees Meeting 2014.

1. Nathaniel Manning!
nathaniel@ushahid.com!
@natpmanning!

2. “The crowdsourced information keeps people aware...in which
regular news outlets are often too bulky or slow to act...”
- FastCompany

3. Do what you can, with what you have,
where you are.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Knowledge is power, Information is liberating.
Kofi Annan

7. CHANGING THE WAY INFORMATION FLOWS!

8. (c)Yasuyoshi Chiba

9. Founding Team!
MIT Tech Review’s Top 35
under 35. FastCompany’s
‘Most creative People’!
World Economic Forum ICT
Global Council!
MIT Media Lab Director Fellow!
TED Senior Fellow,
Pop!Tech Fellow. !
TIME Top 50 websites!

12. 3 Days!
3 Hours!
3 Minutes!

16. March 2011 - 11,000+ reports!
Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis!
Massive Deployments!
November 2012 - 40,000+ reports!
Monitor USA 2012 Presidential Elections!

17. Improved Services!
August 2013 – 1,000+ reports!
Custom service platform !

18. Health Examples!
September 2013 !
Data Management of Blood Donations during
Westgate Attacks!
July 2011 - 5,000+ reports!
Managing stockouts of medicine in hospitals and
clinics!

19. urbandesignweek.org! fixyourstreet.ie!
Community Engagement!

20. Limitless Creativity!

21. USHAHIDI GLOBAL NETWORK!

22. 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

23. Pothole Theory
(CCby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462)

25. 11,000+
125+ companies
700+ jobs

28. a makerspace !
for prototyping and
small-scale
fabrication!
showcasing the
inventions and
ingenuity across
Africa!

29. mobile home security!

30. remote porridge maker!

32. Why do we use technology designed
for London and Los Angeles when
we live in Nairobi and New Delhi?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/2262821682

33. THe reality...
Unreliable Power
Unreliable Connectivity
Challenging environments

34. CONNECTIVITY
REDESIGNED

35. Connecting people
to eduction, social, and
communications!
Connecting sensors
and information to responders,
technicians, and analyst!
TWO ROLES, ONE BRCK!
*photo credit Charity Water

36. Final Mile Connectivity
The longterm objective...
TOTAL
Connectivity
needs of
375K Rural Communities
and 800M People
...And that’s just in africa!
*photo credit Worldreader
Africa Media Online
Getty Images Clinton

37. OPEN TOOLS!
DATA!
ACCESS!

38. We Want to see more Ushahidis In the World

39. Nathaniel Manning!
nathaniel@ushahid.com!
@natpmanning!
THANK YOU!!