Jon Gosier@jongos

World Bank Transport Forum 3/30/11

About UshahidiUshahidi is a free, open-source platform used for crowdsourcing and visualizing data geospatially. It was born out of the 2008 election unrest when founders Juliana Rotich, Erik Hersman, Ory Okolloh and David Kobia wanted to allow Kenyan citizens a way to SMS reports of incident to know what was occurring around them. This was one of the earliest uses of crowdsourcing for crisis response.

Notable UsesUshahidi has been deployed in major global crisis scenarios, allowing organizations to draw situational awareness from the crowd. To date it ’s been downloaded over 15,000 times.

Some of the more notable deployments include recently in Egypt, the Haiti earthquakes, the fires in Russia, the Queensland floods in Australia.

The ChallengeA s t h e a m o u n t s o f d a t a aggregated by Ushahidi users grows, they face a common problem. How do they effectively manage this realtime data? How can we help them discover credible and actionable info from the deluge of reports they’ll get from the public? The SwiftRiver initiative was created to begin to answer some of these questions for Ushahidi deployers.

SINSAI.INFO

OILSPILL CRISIS MAP

UCHAGUZI

TUBESTRIKE CROWDMAP

HARASSMAP

CHECKINS

A quick method of dropping geo-cached notes, pics, messages, or other types of data using location aware devices.

❖ Staff Locations❖ Activity / Observations❖ Landmarks❖ Surveying❖ Plotting Paths

USING CHECKINS

USE CASES

❖ Near real-time❖ Cheap to deploy❖ Easy to use❖ Fast

CHALLENGE

SMS Sync + Checkins

Jon Gosier@jongos

World Bank Transport Forum 3/30/11