Ushahidi: Made in Africa

Nathaniel Manning

(c)Yasuyoshi Chiba

Founding Team

MIT Tech Review’s Top 35 under 35. FastCompany’s ‘Most creative People’

World Economic Forum ICT Global Council

TED Senior Fellow, Pop!Tech Fellow. TIME Top 50 websites

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 ushahidi.com

Movement

Changing the way information flows

Massive Deployments March 2011 - 4,000+ reports Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis

Mobile Free and open source SMS gateway for Android

the default device

Whitelabeling of Android and iOS apps

Lessons Crowdsourcing platform must be easy to deploy, intuitive to use, simple to localize and customize “A map is only as useful as the process and people to make it happen.” -George Chamales, Rogue Genius

slidesha.re/ushahidi_lessons

Pothole Theory

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

The common denominator for successful is trust.

BUILDING A DATA PLATFORM

Growth & Scale

Citizen Journalism

December 2010 Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt

harassmap.com

Communities

By the City / For the City (NYC) Integration of social media into placemaking practices, which are community centered, encouraging public participation, collaboration and transparency.

urbandesignweek.org

Election Monitoring

May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 views Allow citizen reporting during election

votereport.in

August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 views Monitor Kenya referendum election

uchaguzi.co.ke

Limitless Creativity

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

Thank You ushahidi.com

swiftly.org

crowdmap.com

APPENDIX

ANALYSING DATA

We have a Problem We are pummeled by information 250 million Tweets/day How do we find the one important drop of info?

SwiftRiver is a curation tool that combines search with the power of the crowd Computer Intelligence

The Human Hunch

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Curate. Filter. Collaborate.

CrowdSource the Filter

Real-time information.

Processed into a river.

Filtered by the crowd.

Visualized & organized.

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