Nathaniel Manning, Ushahidi
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Ushahidi presentation at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s OER Grantees Meeting 2014.
Transcript of Nathaniel Manning, Ushahidi
“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
