Ushahidi – need for speed 2011

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Ushahidi – The Need for Speed Deploying a crowdsourced crisis map in Vermont Bill Morris – GeoSprocket LLC

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Ushahidi – The Need for SpeedDeploying a crowdsourced crisis map in Vermont

Bill Morris – GeoSprocket LLC

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Vermont vs. Hurricane Irene

Washouts in Rochester: photo by Mansfield Heliflight

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Ushahidi Deployments Past:

Kenya 2008Haiti 2010

Guatemala 2011

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Web ReportForm

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Vacuuming in Twitter Updates #vtirene #vtflood #vtresponse #vtlee

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Reporting via Smartphone!

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Mobile reporting encounters a few hitches

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8 days late to the party . . . SMS and voice-to-text via Google Voice!

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In the Background . . .

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Live News Aggregation via RSS

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Additional Layers via KML and CSV

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As Irene unfolded . . .

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Google Crisis Map Integration

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Oh, the Potential: Ushahidi Sweeper

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Crisis Mapping vs. Citizen Science

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Going Forward:

VTIrene Ushahidi

Deployment

VTResponse Activities

Map

State High Water Mark

Map

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Take-Home #1

Be Local

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Take-Home #2

Plug Into All the Channels

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Strapped for Time? Start Here:

www.crowdmap.com

Remote hosting of Ushahidi w/ no code required (well, mostly no code)