Nathaniel Manning!nathaniel@ushahid.com!

@natpmanning!

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

- FastCompany

Do what you can, with what you have,

where you are.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Knowledge is power, Information is liberating.

Kofi Annan

CHANGING THE WAY INFORMATION FLOWS!

(c)Yasuyoshi Chiba

Founding Team!

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

World Economic Forum ICT Global Council!

MIT Media Lab Director Fellow!

TED Senior Fellow, Pop!Tech Fellow. !

TIME Top 50 websites!

3 Days!

3 Hours!

3 Minutes!

March 2011 - 11,000+ reports!Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis!

Massive Deployments!

November 2012 - 40,000+ reports!Monitor USA 2012 Presidential Elections!

Improved Services!

August 2013 – 1,000+ reports!Custom service platform !

Health Examples!

September 2013 !Data Management of Blood Donations during

Westgate Attacks!

July 2011 - 5,000+ reports!Managing stockouts of medicine in hospitals and

clinics!

urbandesignweek.org! fixyourstreet.ie!

Community Engagement!

Limitless Creativity!

USHAHIDI GLOBAL NETWORK!

Lessons

slidesha.re/ushahidi_lessons

“A map is only as useful as the process and people to make it

happen.” -George Chamales, Rogue Genius

Crowdsourcing platform must be easy to deploy, intuitive to use,

simple to localize and customize

Pothole Theory

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

11,000+ 125+ companies

700+ jobs

a makerspace !for prototyping and

small-scale fabrication!

showcasing the inventions and

ingenuity across Africa!

mobile home security!

remote porridge maker!

Why do we use technology designed

for London and Los Angeles when

we live in Nairobi and New Delhi?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/2262821682

THe reality...

Unreliable Power

Unreliable Connectivity

Challenging environments

CONNECTIVITY

REDESIGNED

Connecting people to eduction, social, and

communications!

Connecting sensors and information to responders,

technicians, and analyst!

TWO ROLES, ONE BRCK!

*photo credit Charity Water

Final Mile Connectivity

The longterm objective...

TOTAL

Connectivity

needs of

375K Rural Communities

and 800M People

...And that’s just in africa!

*photo credit Worldreader Africa Media Online

Getty Images Clinton

OPEN TOOLS!

DATA!

ACCESS!

We Want to see more Ushahidis In the World

Nathaniel Manning!nathaniel@ushahid.com!

@natpmanning!

THANK YOU!!