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PIVOTING
                      AN AFRICAN OPEN
                      SOURCE PROJECT
                              David Kobia - @dkobia


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“Citizens that were once only passive
                      recipients of information are now
                      contributors to the story.”
                      - Dale Zak, Ushahidi developer




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4000+ reports and 150,000 views   3,584 reports and 500,000 views

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FIRST LESSONS


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Capturing
                          Storing
                        Calculating
                      Media monitoring
                         Sourcing
                        Geotagging
                       Categorization
                          Analysis
                      Report authoring
                        Verification



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Media monitoring    Geotagging
                                            Sourcing


                      Media monitoring
                         Sourcing            Analysis       Categorization
                        Geotagging
                       Categorization
                          Analysis
                      Report authoring   Report authoring    Verification
                        Verification


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NEW CHALLENGES


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It’s hard to make sense of
                      a lot of real-time information
                      in short periods of time.


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“IT’S NOT INFORMATION OVERLOAD.
                                 IT’S FILTER FAILURE”
                                            - Clay Shirky
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Truth is subjective



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WE WILL BUILD IT
            STRONGER + FASTER + BETTER


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CROWDSOURCE
                          THE FILTER


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Real-time information.   Processed into a river.   Filtered by the crowd.   Visualized & organized.




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Curate

                      Media monitoring   Filter
                         Sourcing
                        Geotagging
                       Categorization    Collaborate
                          Analysis
                        Annotating
                         Verifying


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swiftly.org



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LESSONS


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STFUP and Just Do IT



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use what you know



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$software !== $product



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Simple, Stupid



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</ it would be cool if >



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‘Open’... really open



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Don’t just create products,
                      solve real problems


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Developers

                      Testers

                      Translators

                      Mappers


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DAVID KOBIA
                      email david@ushahidi.com
                      web www.ushahidi.com
                      twitter @dkobia




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