What if citizens mapped health?

Heather Leson@heatherleson

hleson@ushahidi.com

AMREF

March 7, 2012

Social ImpactEnabling the wider coverage of crisis, elections and political movements that would otherwise be unreported or underreported

Create an easy-to-use tool that is freely and instantly available to individuals, NGOs and other organizations allowing them to focus on mobilizing the content and the response

Facilitate transparency and accountability by amplifying citizen voices with a consumer-focused tool, designed with areas with limited access in mind

Developing ability for stakeholders in a particular situation to share and find data

Disaster Response

March 2011 - 10,000+ reports, 144,974 viewsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis

sinsai.info/ushahidi uchaguzi.co.ke

Election Monitoring

August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 viewsMonitor Kenya referendum election

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https://hondurashealthmapping.crowdmap.com/main

http://www.cic.mx/tehuan/

strong community partnerships: civil society, public and private

all channels: mobile app, sms (citivox, webform, email, twitter, facebook, street teams

Accountability: you get a ticket

SMS QUESTION: “Al Jazeera would like to know — how has the Somalia Conflict affected your life? Please also include the name of your hometown in the response. Thanks.”

Thank you.