The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative research team led by Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully, supported by the Knight Foundation, conducted evaluation research. Over the year, they interviewed Kenyan Ushahidi deployers, specifically those participating in Uchaguzi, Unsung Heros and Building Bridges, and had community members help shape the research deliverables. Evaluation to action was a key goal of the project. Their research resulted in the creation of three toolboxes to assist users in the various stages of their Ushahidi deployments: Assessment, Implementation and Outputs.
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative research team led by Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully, supported by the Knight Foundation, conducted evaluation research. Over the year, they interviewed Kenyan Ushahidi deployers, specifically those participating in Uchaguzi, Unsung Heros and Building Bridges, and had community members help shape the research deliverables. Evaluation to action was a key goal of the project. Their research resulted in the creation of three toolboxes to assist users in the various stages of their Ushahidi deployments: Assessment, Implementation and Outputs.
This presentation will share tradiational and creative methods to incorporate technology into your planning and evaluation. This presentation was shared at the BCEO workshop in October 2009 for UW-Cooperative Extension Professionals.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #2: Implementation.
The Disaster Recovery Plan Sumanth Lagadapati[email protecte.docxtodd241
The Disaster Recovery Plan
Sumanth Lagadapati
[email protected]
Introduction
Many companies don’t have a disaster recovery plan often there is a desire for a DRP.
The level of effort and\or cost required to create DRP can cause this project to have a low priority relative to other more immediate projects.
A DRP is viewed as "nice to have" or "just insurance that will not be used ", and not as a critical business component.
That is, until there is a failure that causes a significant outage or loss of data (often at a significant cost to the business).
It is my opinion that every company could benefit from both a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan (BCP)
Investing in a DRP and BCP is just as an important for most business in my opinion.
Where do you start?
The first step is to create a DR team and this includes an:
Executive sponsor.
DR coordinator.
Team leaders (there will be several groups and possibly subgroups).
Team members.
This people should be designated as either primary or backup for position, with every position having more than one person assigned this to minimize people as a single point of failure.
The goal is to have the expertise to help develop the various recovery procedures, and is committed to success of the overall effort.
Where do you start? cont…
The next step is to define business goals.
The goal should address items such as:
What functional areas need to be recovered?
What length of time is acceptable for recovery?
What amount of data loss is acceptable?
This often involves prioritization and a cost-benefit analysis to determine the worth of recovery (i.e. something that may be premature at this phase of the project).
Understand the business goals and objectives
To find out what that really entails you must know:
What are the critical systems?
What are the key processes and applications?
What are the dependencies on other systems?
This includes:
Data transfers.
Manual processes
Remote processing
Then documents these processes.
Because there is interaction with dependencies on other systems and user interface, and the sensitivity of the data.
Once the systems have been identified, attempt to quantify their impact relative to the overall business goals.
Identify specific requirements
Everyone involve with this effort (including upper management within a company) needs to have a single vision of what success look like, without this you risk wasting time and money on a plan that may be viewed as a failure.
Identify key personnel
These people may not be part of the DR team, but they are important. (For example who has the authority to declare a disaster?)
This list should be maintained both by name and by role; it should be validated and updated frequently.
Identify single point of failure
The overall goal of this step is to mitigate unnecessary risk.
The scope of this effort includes people, software, equipment, and infrastructure.
It i.
Social software lets employees connect and share in new ways, and can dramatically improve the effectiveness of your organization. But social technologies like microblogging, social networking, automated activity feeds, social spreadsheets, wikis, etc. are new to most organizations, and most IT departments don’t have experience with how to successfully implement them.
Success with social software involves a lot more than simply finding the product that best fits your needs. It involves framing the problem appropriately in the first place, defining your business goals, and choosing a rollout methodology designed to meet those goals. It involves selling your CFO, changing behavior across your organization, and more.
This paper is designed to help you learn from the mistakes of others before you, so you can avoid the common pitfalls of social software, and get fast business value.
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative research team led by Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully, supported by the Knight Foundation, conducted evaluation research. Over the year, they interviewed Kenyan Ushahidi deployers, specifically those participating in Uchaguzi, Unsung Heros and Building Bridges, and had community members help shape the research deliverables. Evaluation to action was a key goal of the project. Their research resulted in the creation of three toolboxes to assist users in the various stages of their Ushahidi deployments: Assessment, Implementation and Outputs.
This presentation will share tradiational and creative methods to incorporate technology into your planning and evaluation. This presentation was shared at the BCEO workshop in October 2009 for UW-Cooperative Extension Professionals.
The Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project was 9-month Ushahidi evaluation project in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. Jennifer Chan and Melissa Tully conducted research which lead to the creation of case studies and toolboxes. (2011) This is Toolbox #2: Implementation.
The Disaster Recovery Plan Sumanth Lagadapati[email protecte.docxtodd241
The Disaster Recovery Plan
Sumanth Lagadapati
[email protected]
Introduction
Many companies don’t have a disaster recovery plan often there is a desire for a DRP.
The level of effort and\or cost required to create DRP can cause this project to have a low priority relative to other more immediate projects.
A DRP is viewed as "nice to have" or "just insurance that will not be used ", and not as a critical business component.
That is, until there is a failure that causes a significant outage or loss of data (often at a significant cost to the business).
It is my opinion that every company could benefit from both a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan (BCP)
Investing in a DRP and BCP is just as an important for most business in my opinion.
Where do you start?
The first step is to create a DR team and this includes an:
Executive sponsor.
DR coordinator.
Team leaders (there will be several groups and possibly subgroups).
Team members.
This people should be designated as either primary or backup for position, with every position having more than one person assigned this to minimize people as a single point of failure.
The goal is to have the expertise to help develop the various recovery procedures, and is committed to success of the overall effort.
Where do you start? cont…
The next step is to define business goals.
The goal should address items such as:
What functional areas need to be recovered?
What length of time is acceptable for recovery?
What amount of data loss is acceptable?
This often involves prioritization and a cost-benefit analysis to determine the worth of recovery (i.e. something that may be premature at this phase of the project).
Understand the business goals and objectives
To find out what that really entails you must know:
What are the critical systems?
What are the key processes and applications?
What are the dependencies on other systems?
This includes:
Data transfers.
Manual processes
Remote processing
Then documents these processes.
Because there is interaction with dependencies on other systems and user interface, and the sensitivity of the data.
Once the systems have been identified, attempt to quantify their impact relative to the overall business goals.
Identify specific requirements
Everyone involve with this effort (including upper management within a company) needs to have a single vision of what success look like, without this you risk wasting time and money on a plan that may be viewed as a failure.
Identify key personnel
These people may not be part of the DR team, but they are important. (For example who has the authority to declare a disaster?)
This list should be maintained both by name and by role; it should be validated and updated frequently.
Identify single point of failure
The overall goal of this step is to mitigate unnecessary risk.
The scope of this effort includes people, software, equipment, and infrastructure.
It i.
Social software lets employees connect and share in new ways, and can dramatically improve the effectiveness of your organization. But social technologies like microblogging, social networking, automated activity feeds, social spreadsheets, wikis, etc. are new to most organizations, and most IT departments don’t have experience with how to successfully implement them.
Success with social software involves a lot more than simply finding the product that best fits your needs. It involves framing the problem appropriately in the first place, defining your business goals, and choosing a rollout methodology designed to meet those goals. It involves selling your CFO, changing behavior across your organization, and more.
This paper is designed to help you learn from the mistakes of others before you, so you can avoid the common pitfalls of social software, and get fast business value.
Hopmere, Michael Its Better Building 080410mhopmere
Short practical presentation given in Montreal in 2008 - identifying \'missing links\' in your PM organisation, assessing their impact and filling the gaps.
What to decide before going in for an intranetSridutt YS
A paper on the decisions that you need to make while planning to implement an intranet. There maybe more factors to bear in mind, however, this paper covers the most basic questions that you need to answer.
A brief introduction of Product Designing process followed at www.actiwate.in . Being the UI/UX in-charge i have listed down all the important processes to be followed from the start to the prototyping of the product.
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SWOT Analysis
Brief Description
SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities and Threats.
Strengths and Weaknesses are internal factors, while
Opportunities and Threats are external factors that can
have an effect on you, your organizational unit and or your
projects.
History
While it is not known exactly who developed the first
SWOT analysis it is believed that many different
professors in the East coast of the USA are responsible
for developing the way that we look at it now.
When to use
SWOT Analysis is a simple but useful framework for
analyzing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and
Threats that you face in your organization especially when
about to start a new project, engage in a restructuring,
undergo a mid term evaluation, etc. It can also be used in project planning and eventually evaluation of its activities at various intervals. This plan
can help you focus on main strengths and leverage them to pursue key opportunities and to avoid threats . The team can also become aware of its
weaknesses which might need to be overcome in order to take the greatest possible advantage of potential opportunities available to you.
How to use
The SWOT chart to the right is a useful tool for everyone including team members and managers. When developing your personal SWOT chart
look and think in-depth about how each area effects your department and even you personally. Share the chart with colleagues in order to get
feedback and different suggestions until the chart is full with thoughts. This will then enable you to refine it and, ultimately, implement it into your
organization and/or project.
When developing your own personal SWOT chart, ask several interrogative questions similar to the examples provided below for each of the four
areas of a SWOT.
Strengths:
How can I leverage them to benefit my goals?
What are my/ our advantages?
What do we/ I do better than others?
What makes me/ my organization/ department unique?
What makes our project unique?
What low-cost resources can be utilized?
Are there any people that bring strengths?
Weaknesses:
How can I minimize or eliminate the potential for these to harm me?
What could be improved?
What could be avoided slightly and altogether?
What factors are seen as weaknesses in your area?
What nec ...
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Numerous questions from various departments ranging from marketing to purchasing are raised at least once a quarter throughout many companies.
The answers are relatively simple. Software may not always be needed, but the data and results can be critical. Be it issues related to daily operations, PR activities, customer service, sales, competitor analysis, campaign effectiveness analysis or even strategic market research or product development, the cheapest and quickest answers are to be found in social media.
There are several hundreds of solutions offered for social media analysis, monitoring and research. Like any other market, the market of social media monitoring solutions abounds in tools geared to serve general needs or a given profession or sector. Although the common term for the industry is social media monitoring, software and tools can be grouped into at least ten different categories depending on the objectives:
• Supporting daily processes, tactical or strategic decisions;
• Assisting marketing, research and development, customer
service, HR or PR activities;
• Following the brand or consumer dialogs;
• Producing a simple report or analysis;
• Concentrating on the past or the future;
• Supporting local objectives, or providing an
international view.
About Replise
The Social Intelligence Company Founded 2010 in Hungary by serial entrepreneurs. Replise provides social research services in more than 40 languages and operates offices in Germany, UK, Poland and Hungary. Focusing on social research using proven market research methodologies, Replise has established partnerships with classic market research firms. Replise’s services are based on the combination of a unique high-end social analytics platform and a team of qualified analysts with years of market expertise. We can provide access to historical as well as real time data from blogs, forums, news portals, video platforms and social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Replise products and services are used by well-known brands and many marketing and PR agencies across Europe.
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Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eK8HjVG2m0
Tool - http://dssg.ushahididev.com/
Around the world citizens and organizations are using online reporting tools, including Ushahidi to tell their story, amplify and action responses. This is part 2 of a summary of mapping projects. More on our wiki - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Anti-Corruption+and+Transparency
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A paper on the decisions that you need to make while planning to implement an intranet. There maybe more factors to bear in mind, however, this paper covers the most basic questions that you need to answer.
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SWOT Analysis (/SWOT+Analysis)
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SWOT Analysis
Brief Description
SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities and Threats.
Strengths and Weaknesses are internal factors, while
Opportunities and Threats are external factors that can
have an effect on you, your organizational unit and or your
projects.
History
While it is not known exactly who developed the first
SWOT analysis it is believed that many different
professors in the East coast of the USA are responsible
for developing the way that we look at it now.
When to use
SWOT Analysis is a simple but useful framework for
analyzing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and
Threats that you face in your organization especially when
about to start a new project, engage in a restructuring,
undergo a mid term evaluation, etc. It can also be used in project planning and eventually evaluation of its activities at various intervals. This plan
can help you focus on main strengths and leverage them to pursue key opportunities and to avoid threats . The team can also become aware of its
weaknesses which might need to be overcome in order to take the greatest possible advantage of potential opportunities available to you.
How to use
The SWOT chart to the right is a useful tool for everyone including team members and managers. When developing your personal SWOT chart
look and think in-depth about how each area effects your department and even you personally. Share the chart with colleagues in order to get
feedback and different suggestions until the chart is full with thoughts. This will then enable you to refine it and, ultimately, implement it into your
organization and/or project.
When developing your own personal SWOT chart, ask several interrogative questions similar to the examples provided below for each of the four
areas of a SWOT.
Strengths:
How can I leverage them to benefit my goals?
What are my/ our advantages?
What do we/ I do better than others?
What makes me/ my organization/ department unique?
What makes our project unique?
What low-cost resources can be utilized?
Are there any people that bring strengths?
Weaknesses:
How can I minimize or eliminate the potential for these to harm me?
What could be improved?
What could be avoided slightly and altogether?
What factors are seen as weaknesses in your area?
What nec ...
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Numerous questions from various departments ranging from marketing to purchasing are raised at least once a quarter throughout many companies.
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• Assisting marketing, research and development, customer
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• Following the brand or consumer dialogs;
• Producing a simple report or analysis;
• Concentrating on the past or the future;
• Supporting local objectives, or providing an
international view.
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Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
2. Why do the toolbox?
These tools are based upon the rich experiences of people and organizations that have used
the Ushahidi instance. The following toolboxes are crucial to your success!
Checklist
TOOLBOX 1- SELF ASSESSMENT
TOOLBOX 2- IMPLEMENTATION
TOOLBOX 3 - USING YOUR INFORMATION
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3. TOOLBOX 2
Implementation
This toolbox will help you implement your project using the Ushahidi/Crowdmap instance :
- Review of your work from Toolbox #1
- Choosing the platform that will work best for your project (Ushahidi or Crowdmap)
- Understanding and planning roles and responsibilities
- Think about information inflows and outflows
- Plan a verification process that will link directly to action
- Create a marketing plan
- Build a feedback loop
- Plan for a volunteer team
- Plan and implement training for your members and partners
4. Project Goal/Objectives/anticipated impact
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Reasons for mapping
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Partnerships
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Information/Communication
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Marketing Media Plan
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Technology Assessment
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The database will auto-generate the following:
Before moving into toolbox 2, here is a review of your work from the assessment toolbox….
I would like to
make
changes…..
Let’s move
on!
5. Which platform is best for your project? Ushahidi or Crowdmap
Choosing the platform that will work best for your project
The Ushahidi Platform
• A platform for organizations with more tech experience.
•Needs to be downloaded to your own server
• A good fit for a project that has tech experience and developer
support.
• Allows for customization.
• You can own the data
Check out the demo…..
•allows you to set up your own deployment of the Ushahidi
Platform without having to install it on your own web server
•Does not require and installation
•the fastest, simplest installation of the Ushahidi platform.
•built to handle information coming out of a crisis.
• No need for a developer
•Fewer plug-ins
•Open data / unable to password protect
Learn more on the website:
FAQ’s
Which one will work best for you project?
TIPS: A technology developer (or tech savvy person) can install your Ushahidi instance and you or another team
members can install Crowdmap. There is a very comprehensive Ushahidi User guide, that will help take you every
step of the way.
6. TIPS: Community users believe that defining roles and responsibilities early in a Ushahidi project is very important to it’s
success.
Understanding Roles/Responsibilities
Let’s collaborate!
STOP HERE and consider having a workshop with your partners and audience to agree upon roles and responsibilities for your
project!!!
Planning roles and responsibilities for your project will depend on the size of your project.
Choose the option that best fits your project:
LARGE
medium
small
Planning a country-wide project, one that involves many partners, or
will be collecting large amounts of information
Crisis Mapping Haiti, Libya
Election Monitoring Kenya/Uganda
Planning a small audience outreach program to collect and share with
a single, specific community
Unsung Peace Heroes/Building Bridges
Short-term deployment with one to three volunteers. Lower targets
for volume and outreach.
I Vote Because - http://ivotebecause.ca/
7. Understanding Roles/Responsibilities- (example of large project)
Here are some example roles from other deployments:
1) To the right examples- ->
Example TOR’s
Leadership
Lessons Learned
Roles in Crisis
icon
Roles in Election
Monitoring
Project Manager (PM) Responsible for keeping the coordinators up to date on the project, monitor activities, and
communicate what needs to be done for the project. Will organize meetings, draft agendas and
reports.
Admin Coordinator Has direct access to the Ushahidi platform and is responsible for overseeing the approval of reports.
Selects a small team with access to this site. Will be responsible for identifying mistakes in reports.
Technology Coordinator Often a technical advisor who is responsible for managing all technical problems. For example, will
change categories, basemaps, & sms syncing programs Works with a PHP Developer and/or GIS
expert. Not all projects require a PHP or GIS expert, especially if you are using Crowdmap.
Volunteer/Training Coordinator He/she will keep track of the volunteers and will coordinate the division of volunteers (ex, mappers,
monitors and admins). Requires three different tasks: recruiting, training and coordinating.
Media/Outreach Coordinator Responsible for the platform messaging to the crowd/community and media and manages
relationships with journalists and general media in general. You may have two people on this team
one for the community/crowd and another for the media/journalists. Works closely with the PM on
the media/outreach strategy.
Emergency Response Coordinator For Crisis related Projects: Responsible with a team to constantly monitor and process reports to
identify emergencies and to provide information to responders. Communicates closely with the
project manager or core team.
This is not a complete list!
Consider having a workshop with your partners and audience to agree upon roles and responsibilities for your project!!!
8. Planning Roles/Responsibilities
Role (drop down box+ write in) Partners (drop down box+ write in) Responsibility (write in) Tasks or Specidic act (write in)-
Job TOR’s Partner Agreements
(ex. Memorandum of
Understanding, MOUs)
Learn more…icon
Community user from other deployments recommend a leadership team.
Who will be part of your leadership team?
TOR
job description
9. Planning Roles/Responsibilities- CRISIS and EMERGENCIES
You will likely need to plan, recruit volunteers, and build partnerships at the same time. We
recommend that you use the following resources.
RESOURCES for IMPLEMENTING THE USHAHIDI/CROWDMAP PLATFORMS:
- The StandbyTaskForce- http://blog.standbytaskforce.com/
- The CrisisMappers Network www.crisismappers.net/
- The Ushahidi Manual
10. Planning Information & Communication Flows
One of the most appealing reasons to use Ushahidi/Crowdmap is the potential to improve
communication and information flow between groups & to improve knowledge among communities
and to help people make decisions. The next few slides will help you create the information flows using
Ushahidi/Crowdmap, but first think about how you will analyze and feedback information:
1) How you will analyze your information?
1) How you will feedback information?
Examples
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11. Planning Information & Communication Flows
Here are some example of the part and groups that will be part of your information system
Ushahidi or
Crowdmap
Platform
Incoming Information
Feedback loops and return of information
The ‘crowd” or public community
People who will freely send in information from an open community who are unknown to the program . For
example; affected people during a crisis, citizens during an election. (need more examples here!)
A trusted or bounded community Individuals or Groups that are part of the community and
also part of known set of reporters to the platform. For example: NGO workers reporting to a UN system,
election monitors reporting into the system. Pre-identified trusted community members sending in human
rights information, and even known first responders during a disaster.
Partners who
will send &
receive
information
Other organizations/partners- Organization that are partners involved in the program. This
can be the organization that represents a bounded community (ex. Election monitoring group, UN Cluster,
consortium) They can also be organization that wish to received analyzed information as well. (
Media/Journalists)
Ushahidi/Crowdmap Platform- This is where information from the group above will come into
and will also be the location where analyzed or processed information may come from. Within this platform
there may be more people involved to process/analyze and present information back to the wider
community. Remember that on major part of the platform is internet and web-based!
12. Planning Information & Communication Flows
This picture will help you determine information flows with the Usahahidi instance
Ushahidi/Crowdmap
Platform
Ushahidi
Map/Website
categories
layers
reports
statistics
Partners who
will send
information
you can have another
group here like
international media
EXAMPLES- ALL
Incoming Information
Feedback loops and return of information
Your
thoughts?
UNDP/OCHA COLOMBIA
HAITI CRISIS MAP
LIBYA CRISIS MAP
13. Planning Information & Communication Flows
Create the information flow and system that will best fit your project
(is it possible to do a drag/drop function here? Where they would drag a group/partner into a circle? )
Drag your partners/group into the shapes- (auto-generated from assessment)
Add more partners….
Drag the arrows to show where the information will enter
14. Information/Communication
Here is a recap of your information communication strategy from the assessment toolbox
make
changes….
Let’s move
on!
How do you plan to collect information the information you wish to map on the Ushahidi platform?
SMS
Web
Twitter
Smart phone Apps
Email
Call Center
Voice Message
Facebook
List the specific types of information that you will collect for your project:
Face to Face
Radio
Other________________
Other________________
15. Information and Categories
A very good way to create and choose categories is to first understand how you will use the collected information.
Information How will it be
collected?
(drop down or write in..)
XXX camp sms, phone
XXXX hospital sms, phone
CATEGORY
Camp Locations
Hospital (functioning)
How will this
information be
categorized?
Information How will it be
communicated out?
(drop down or write in..)
Refugee camp locations in X region UN cluster map, SMS alert,
Functioning hospitals in Y region UN Health map, Cluster
meeting
How will this information
be communicated out?
EXAMPLE: You are quickly setting up a crisis map. Your goal is to identify the location of refugee camps to share
who/what/where maps and share information about hospitals/ and clinics at UN Cluster meetings so organizations can plan
shelter and health services.
The information for the UN meeting will be maps with refugee locations and functioning hospital locations
Categories you can create are “Camp Locations” and “Hospitals (functioning)”
Now think about how this information will feasibly be collected. a) crowd information b) NGO individuals
reporting into the system.
1
2
3
123
16. Adding your information and feedback loops-
Now add the information types to information diagram that you just created.
Have you
completed the
feedback loop?
More tips…..
(is it possible to do a drag/drop function here? Where they would drag a group/partner into a circle? )
Drag your information types next to the red and green arrows above (auto-generated from
assessment)
.
Schematic diagram from Slide 11 inserted here.
Information OUT (drop down?)
Auto inserted from slide 13
As above
Information IN (drop down)
Auto inserted from slide 13
As above
18. Verifying information
One of the challenges of using a crowdsourcing tool is verification: When information enters the Ushahidi/Crowdmap
platforms you or your team will need to verify and confirm reports.
Here are some ways that deployments have verified information:
•You have the information from multiple reliable sources
•You have two or more text messages from different phone numbers about the same incident.
•Someone on your team has spoken with the person on the ground to get more detailed information about the report.
•On of the providers of information is a partner or part of your “trusted network”
What is a trusted
network?
Twitter challenges Example
verificationsicon
The Guide to
verification
What will be the rules to verify a report? (enter text here)
If you have large numbers of reports coming in all at once, how will you prioritize which ones to verify quickly?
How will you train your teams on how to verify? (enter text here)
TIPS: If there is any doubt about a report, a good first step would be to mark the report as unverified, until you
have the opportunity to investigate further.
19. Choosing the Right Map
When using Ushahidi or Crowdmap your verified reports will be placed on a map. You will need to choose a
map that best fits the needs of your project.
TIPS: How large is the area that you will place information on the map? (country, region, city, community)?
Consideration #1: What is the scope or size of your project. Do you plan to collect
information for an entire country, a city, or just a community?
Consideration #2: Is there a map that exists of the areas that you are interested in?
Some maps services may not have the area mapped. You should always check. If it
does not exist? What are the next steps? What are your options?
Ushahidi has 4 available providers, if you have a developer you can have them add another map to better fit your needs.
The only customizable map is OpenStreetMap (OSM) Check out the following map providers here:
I can’t find a
map for my
project …..
Visual Earth
20. Messaging/Campaign
How will people find out about your initiative?
If your project involved receiving messages from the “crowd” or the open community, it is very important that you have a
clear message and strategy about what type of information you would like people to send in, and for what purpose you
will be using the information.
Here are some things to think about:
HOW DO PEOPLE ALREADY BROADCAST INFORMATION TO ONE ANOTHER? Think about the ways that people communicate
with one another about information. If the community that you want to send in message watches television, reads the newspaper, or listen
to the radio, this may be a very effective way to inform people of your project and why you want them to send you information.
KEEP IT SIMPLE Don’t forget about face to face communications! Think about how people can spread the word in local meetings, through
community leaders, and other basic communication pathways.
TRUST If you are asking people to provide sensitive information how can you create trust so that they will feel safe and comfortable to
provide information? Who will help you achieve this? (community leaders, etc) and how long will it take?
TIMELINE Think carefully about the time it will take to launch your campaign. If you are planning on using different media plan for time to
contact radio stations, money for printing fliers, and more time to build relationships and trust with community leaders who may promote
your project.
SMS USE The presence of mobile networks does not always mean that people will easily and freely SMS text. If you expect most of your
information to come by SMS , investigate whether or not people are literate, feel comfortable texting, etc.
COST Although using more media channels increase your campaign, it will likely also increase the cost of your project. One inexpensive
and very effective way is to use community leaders and community organizations but this requires time and trust- which you may not
always have especially during an emergency or crisis.
TIPS: Many users believe in the importance of advance outreach via media coverage, advertising, workshops & demonstrations.
21. The Message
What will you actually say in your message?
The specific words that you use in your campaign message will not only determine the type of messages you received,
but will also influence the expectations of the users or “crowd”. Here are some examples and the successes and
challenges.
Needs Accurate Content here!
This message generated
thousand of messages, but
one of the challenges was
the large number of needs.
In addition many people
believed that if they texted
in their need, that there
would always be a
response.
This web banner was one
of many message that
Building Bridges use to have
people map peace
initiatives around the
world.
Needs content here for snowmagedden
MORE
EXAMPLES
22. Managing Expectations of your partners/audience
When using the Ushahidi/Crowdmap platform people often expect a response.
HERE ARE SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
•If you decide not to respond, then it is extremely important that you make this clear to your audience to ensure that there are no
expectations around the project or that there is no information gathering system that you cannot or are not set up to meet.
•How will you ensure that there are not expectations around the project or information gathering system that you cannot or are not set up
to meet?
•Do you have a communication plan when you are unable to fulfill the promise of response that you messaged out in the past?
•How will you return the information to the community/local district/those who provided so that they can use it for decision making or
program intervention?
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPES OF USER EXPERIENCES
(please help with content here!!!)
TIPS: There are different ways to manage expectations, like conducting local media campaigns, or sending automatic responses to
messages saying "thank you for message, now the message will be processed", and so on. (Anahi)
23. Messaging/Campaign
How will people find out about your initiative?
How will people find out about your initiative? What communication pathways will you use?
TIPS: If you have time, we recommend that you touch base with your partners and users to see how they will interpret your
message.
Write down some sample messages that you will you for your campaign
How will you manage expectation from communities and the crowd?
26. THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING TOOLBOX #2!
Please save this file and add your name to the title. Then, return it to Heather Leson
hleson@ushahidi.com.
. You will receive a report from toolbox #1 to use in your project.
In your email please send comments on how you would like this tool improved or
changed!
Thank you for being a very important part of Ushahidi’s User community!
28. Local Associations
Local Responders- police, redes social
Agencies/Intl Orgs- PDP, defenseria, NGO, UN
Key node(s)
-Trusted by community
-Trusted by the system
Community
Individual(s) Platform
SIHCE
SIDCE
Key Components
-Fact
-Request
-Documentation
- Proof of Support
Platform Administrators
-Information management
-Maintain flow of information from nodes
to committee
- technical knowledge to maintain platform
infrastructure
Government
-Governor
-Secretariats
-Advisors
Public Advocacy
Recommendations
Rapid response
Committee
-validate/monitor/and analyze information
- local organizations rapidly respond
-Coordinate & collectively present information to
government
-key representative of organizations
-
Collective
Report
Policy
Monitoring
Individual Agency
Recommendations
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Example
The Ushahidi User Guide- will give you a step-by-step overview on how to set up your own Ushahidi map and how to make full use of all the features that the Ushahidi software offers.
On Crowdmap versus Ushahidi:
Crowdmap is easier, no need of developer, but little customization possible, less plugins available, no ownership of the data (or if you wish shared ownership of data), no ability to solve bugs by yourself, no themes available, more problems in having your domain name and logo.
Ushahidi instance: need of a server, need of a developer, ongoing dev work on the platform, possibility to change themes, customize, use your domain name easily and logo, ownership of the data.
Anahi Ayala Iacucci MODULE- “Keep in mind that if your project is small you don’t necessarily need one person for each task or role, but you can just decide to have few people covering all the tasks. Also keep in mind that these duties may switch throughout the initiative. The Core management team must be flexible and team player
(TIPS) The emergency Unit is something you need when you are working on projects where you may have very urgent information coming in, that needs to be processed immediately. In this case you want to have a team of people that is ready to map and approve the reports as soon as the information comes in and channel them directly to responders if appropriate.
(Anahi Ayala Iacucci) If you are an NGO almost all of the figures here may be already existing in the overall structure of the organization, and the same if you are an international/national organization.
EXAMPLES
Original Ushahidi Colombia
Revised Ushahidi Colombia
Uchaguzi Kenya
You need to set up a very efficient and fast communication system if you are cooperating with different actors in using the platform. Set up a Skype Chat, a google group, whatever you like to improve communication and assure that the people working on the platform can easily reach each other, See Anahi Ayala Iacucci’s: http://crisismapper.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/how-to-create-your-own-project-using-the-ushahidi-platform/
You need to set up a very efficient and fast communication system if you are cooperating with different actors in using the platform. Set up a Skype Chat, a google group, whatever you like to improve communication and assure that the people working on the platform can easily reach each other.- See Anahi Ayala Iacucci’s blog post: http://crisismapper.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/how-to-create-your-own-project-using-the-ushahidi-platform/
TIPS- when you determine what specific types of information you want to collect and how to categorize information- think about existing indicators that you have already used, are used by similar organization or are used by governments/UN with which you will share information.
Anahi Ayala Iacucci module 1- “Ones you decide what information you want to gather, then you have to look at the existing organizations on the ground that may have already formulated indicators, initiatives, information needs or formats that you should be linking with and following or supporting in designing your project. If there are local organizations that are involved or engaged with your topic/theme/project/initiative already, you may want to think at how they can be involved and engaged3 “
Tips:
From lessons learned/evaluations
Hold a workshop with your partners,
Meet communities and ask them how what information they need and how they would like it shared with them
Anahi Ayala Iacucci “If you decide not to respond, then it is extremely important that you make this clear to your audience to ensure that there are no expectations around the project or that there is no information gathering system that you cannot or are not set up to meet.”
TIPS: (Guide to verification) Also, It is important to anticipate the quantity of reports that you may receive to make sure you have capacity to keep up with report verification. If you are implementing a long-term campaign, you will need to consider sustainability, which may require training people to administer your instance and thinking about funding. You may want to consider recruiting additional volunteers to help with verification!
(volume/duration and verification) It is important to anticipate the quantity of reports that you may receive to make sure you have capacity to keep up with report verification. If you are implementing a long-term campaign, you will need to consider sustainability, which may require training people to administer your instance and thinking about funding. You may want to consider recruiting additional volunteers to help with verification!
(preparation) consider having a pocket care, or 1-pager that outline the verification process so people can refer to it.
Anahi Ayala Iacucci- how to create your own instance blog “Decentralize. If you decide to use Ushahidi in cooperation with a number of organizations give to each organization working with you an admin account and decentralize the mapping and reporting system in this way. Have only the tech people with a Super-Admin account, but let the rest of the work to be done independently by the single organizations, better if distributed geographically. This has two main advantages: the geo-referencing will be done by people knowing the areas they are mapping, so it will be easier, and faster; the administrator, which normally is the one that verify the report is not in the capital hundreds kilometers away from the actual area, but he is there, and can more easily verify information and contact reporters.”
Linda Rafferty- Based on the broader framework of your project or initiative, what is the geographic range for information collecting? (1 community? One district? Nation-wide?) Is there detailed geographical/map information for the area you want to work in? Do you actually need it? If it doesn’t exist, what will you do about it?
TIP: (Anahi, Blog)
Ushahidi is not a map, but it uses maps done by others, like Google Map or OpenStreet Map which are used to reference the geographical location you are reporting. So you need to check carefully if there is a detailed geographical/map information for the area you want to work in, or if you even need it. If a map doesn’t exist, you need to start thinking about possible ways to face this
issue
Based on the broader framework of your project or initiative, the geographic range for information collecting has to be carefully designed. (Anahi Ayala Iaccui)
Especially in developing countries you may find yourself in the situation where the country you are working on doesn’t have good maps, or as it is the case in lots of developing countries, people don’t use addresses but references to locate buildings or houses. ( Anahi Ayala Iacucci)
During crisis or disaster when imagery can change quickly, you should consider a GIS expert on your team who will be able to update changing maps on your Ushahidi instance. Crowdmap currently (as of April 2011) does not have the flexibility to change maps in this way.
I can’t find a map for my project- consider looking into walking papers and Open Street Map
TIPS:
Uchaguzi and Plan International both suggest that real life demonstrations can to improve local “take up.” Similar outreach efforts could be used with beneficiary populations and humanitarian orgs / responders.
Consider the use of SMS Blasts. However, consider capacity issues.
Radio can be an effective means for raising awareness and educating the public.
(Ushahidi Practical Considerations) How will people find out about your initiative? How will you advertise the number to send information to — by radio, television, billboards, handmade posters, word of mouth, in schools?
(Anahi Introduction Module)
Communication with the crowd should be on several levels:
1. Announcement of the service: how to use it, who is running it, how are the messages processed, what reaction can people expect as a result. The message going out should be very simple, but crystal clear.
2. Automatic reply: once someone sends a message, than should automatically receive a message like: thank you for your message, it was received and will be processed.
3. After some time of service is in place and some ammount of messages were processed, there should be a media outreach telling people how the system works, success stories, repeating the purpose of the service. This whole process needs some capacity, but is critical.
TIPS:
Jaroslav Valuch- messaging
Anahi Ayala Iacucci - blog
(Anahi Ayala Iacucci Module 1) Very important too is also the communication strategy of the organization, which should explains what the platform is and what it is not, like if you will use it as a data-gathering and mapping platform, or if you are someone who is gonna solve the problems on the ground. There are different ways to manage expectations, like conducting local media campaigns, or sending automatic responses to messages saying "thank you for message, now the message will be processed", and so on.
(Anahi Module 1) “Managing the expectations is also something you may want to consider when starting a Ushahidi project. Very important in doing this is to decide how you will close the feedback loop and if you want to provide a response to those who submit information. In this case you have to think at what this response will be and who will respond. “
6) How will you close the circle and manage expectations?
Will there be a response to those that submit information? What? Who will respond? How? What is the plan?
How will you ensure that there are not expectations around the project or information gathering system that you cannot or are not set up to meet?
How will you return the information to the community/local district/those who provided so that they can use it for decision making or program intervention?
How will on-line/offline be managed and streamlined into an information gathering, communication and feedback system that works for the different levels of access of the populations you want to collect information from and share information with?
In your project design, how will you take into consideration and maximize local information sharing formats, customs, and opportunities?
And how will you ensure that the information remains in a protected/private state in order to avoid putting anyone at risk?
There are different ways to manage expectations, like conducting local media campaigns, or sending automatic responses to messages saying "thank you for message, now the message will be processed", and so on. (Anahi)
TIPS:
Uchaguzi and Plan International both suggest that real life demonstrations can to improve local “take up.” Similar outreach efforts could be used with beneficiary populations and humanitarian orgs / responders.
Consider the use of SMS Blasts. However, consider capacity issues.
Radio can be an effective means for raising awareness and educating the public
How will people find out about your initiative? How will you advertise the number to send information to — by radio, television, billboards, handmade posters, word of mouth, in schools?
Communication with the crowd should be on several levels: (Anahi- Module)
1. Announcement of the service: how to use it, who is running it, how are the messages processed, what reaction can people expect as a result. The message going out should be very simple, but crystal clear.
2. Automatic reply: once someone sends a message, than should automatically receive a message like: thank you for your message, it was received and will be processed.
3. After some time of service is in place and some ammount of messages were processed, there should be a media outreach telling people how the system works, success stories, repeating the purpose of the service. This whole process needs some capacity, but is critical.
( Linda Raffety) End user input and testing is critical. We learned a lot and our thinking evolved exponentially during the workshops