Leader2.0

Workshop how to use Crowdmap.comcrisis mapping platform.
Leadership 2.0in the crowd-sourced information era
Wojciech Załuski –SocialCampSchool, http://socialcamp.eu

Goal of the workshop?
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How to solve a social problem using technology?
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Crowdsourcing the problem with the crowdmap.

Definition:
Crowdsourcing
1. Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.
2. The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

Wikipedia
Collaborative knowledge for everyone.
written collaboratively by volunteers around the world
18 million articles

Flood – helping in real time in Poland. WWW: alert.powodz.ngo.pl

Monitoring elections in Belarus. WWW: electby.org

How Crowdmap.comworks?
1. Person thathas (a category of) information–reports
flood, needshelp––whatkind of help?
seesviolation of elections–whatkind of?
2. Person who can use information – getsalerts
can deliver food, clean water;
is a journalist, can make the information public.

Solving the social problem.
People who need help report
People who can help get alerts

Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com- 1. sign up

Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com- 2. alerts

Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com- 3. reports

Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com- 4. verify the report

Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com- 5. see report on the front page
If you can see the report on the front page,
you know how to crowdsource social problems.

Links – more information
Tools
Crowdmap.com– 1. Collect information from cell phones, news and the web. 2. Aggregate that information into a single platform. 3. Visualize it on a map and timeline.
Ushahidi.com - A non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
Ushahidi video tutorials, YouTube channel.
Social startups; civic media projects:
Presentations from SocialCamps (Polish);
Center for Future Civic Media - projects, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
NetSquared - projects browser.
Reading, news:
Civic hacking: a new agenda for e-democracy,James Crabtree, openDemocracy.net, 12 June 2007;
The Rise of Crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe, Wired, Issue 14.06 - June 2006;
Patrick Meier's blog - Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi;
Ushahidi's blog,
Open-source software- Wikipedia definition.

Thank You
WojciechZaluski
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