Ushahidi @ Mobile Tech for Social Change

What is Ushahidi? Open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. We build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.Platform Community Movement ushahidi.com

History "Ushahidi", which means "testimony" in Swahili, was a website that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenyaafter post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. legacy.ushahidi.com

Deployments

Services Ushahidi Crowdmap PluginsSMSSync (Android) iPhone/iPad Checkins (CI)

Election MonitoringMay 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 views August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 viewsAllow citizen reporting during election Monitor Kenya referendum election votereport.in uchaguzi.co.ke

Citizen Journalism December 2010 - 319 reports, 156,859 views April 2011 - a lot reportsHelp bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt Engaging citizens to help design a better city harassmap.com bit.ly/ushahidi_pps

Disaster ResponseMarch 2011 - 8,000+ reports, 144,974 views January 2011 - 99,772 reports, 469,744 viewsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis Monitor the ﬂooding in Australia sinsai.info/ushahidi queenslandﬂoods.crowdmap.com

Project 4636 bit.ly/ushahidi_haiti

Post Haiti“The 2010 Haiti earthquake response will be remembered as the moment when the level of access to mobile and online communication enabled a kind of collective intelligence to emerge.” - Disaster Relief 2.0, the United Nations “Haiti showed everyone that it is going to be crucial to adopt and use these technologies to make humanitarian work better, faster and more efficient.” - Adele Waugaman, senior director of technology for United Nations and Vodafone bit.ly/disaster_20

Crowdmap Crowdmap allows you to set up your owndeployment of Ushahidi ‘in the cloud’ without having to install it on your own web server. crowdmap.com

PluginsFlexible plugin architecture allowing custom functionality to be developed independently from the core application. apps.ushahidi.com

SMSSyncSMSSync is a simple SMS to HTTP sync utility, that turns anyAndroid phone into a local SMS gateway that sends incoming messages to any Ushahidi deployment. smssync.ushahidi.com

Checkins (CI)Quick location update which can include an optional photo and description, sharing “I am here”. bit.ly/checkins_purpose

iPhone / iPadUshahidi mobile application for the iPhone and iPad bit.ly/ushahidi_ios_app

A map is not a process or a movement alone. The people who create, curate, communicate and nurture the content make it possible. (George Chamales, paraphrased)

Stand-By Task Force (SBTF) “We are the people who map for three hours at night instead of watching TV. We are the people who wake up early before work, log into Skype and add a few reports to the map. We are the people who may drop everything to map for four days. We are communications and friends.” - Heather Leson, SBTF volunteer standbytaskforce.com

Libya CrisisThe Libya Crisis Map deployed by request of UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) libyacrisismap.net

Prairie Floods SKFloods.ca 244 reportsskﬂoods.ca mbﬂoods.ca

Power Cuts - India Ajay Kumar: Inspired development

Power Cuts NOKIA Mobile App by Hazel Media

Frank Lemire - beyondsight.ca

Quote “We are undergoing a major technology paradigm shift.Citizens that were once only passive recipients of information, are now contributors to the story. In the case of crisis mapping, its the people on the ground that best know the local situation. Enabling a two-way conversation between affected communities and support groups can allow a faster, more effective response.The key point is that affected groups have a voice, we only need to listen.” -Dale Zak, Ushahidi mobile developer

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