Ushahidi: Made in Africa
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TechSoup Global and Guardian Seminar: Transforming your charity by bringing your data to life seminar. Presentation by Nathaniel Manning, Director of Business Development and Strategy at Ushahidi illustrated how they use crowdsourcing, big data and the opensource tools they have developed to help with disaster relief, political accountability and other development issues. Mobile phones were identified as one of the key ways that data is provided and collected in developing countries.
Transcript of 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.
PlatformCommunit
yMovement
ushahidi.com
Changing the way information flows
March 2011 - 4,000+ reportsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
Massive Deployments
Free and open source SMS gateway for Android
Mobile
Whitelabeling of Android and iOS
apps
the defaultdevice
the defaultdevice
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 TheoryPothole Theory
(CCby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462)
(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 urbandesignweek.org
By the City / For the City (NYC)Integration of social media into placemaking practices, which are community centered,
encouraging public participation, collaboration and transparency.
Communities
Election Monitoring
May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 viewsAllow citizen reporting during election
August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 viewsMonitor Kenya referendum election
votereport.in 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 crowdmap.comswiftly.org
APPENDIX
ANALYSING DATA
We have a ProblemWe are pummeled by information
250 million Tweets/dayHow do we find the one important drop of info?
SwiftRiver is a curation tool that combines
search with the power of the crowd
Curate. Filter. Collaborate.
Computer Intelligence
The Human Hunch
+
Real-time information. Processed into a river. Filtered by the crowd.Visualized & organized.
CrowdSource the Filter
To ThisFrom This
