Ushahidi and Crowdmap Checkins
- 1. World Bank Transport Forum 3/30/11 Jon Gosier @jongos
- 2. About Ushahidi Notable Uses The Challenge Ushahidi is a free, open-source Ushahidi has been deployed in As the amounts of data platform used for crowdsourcing major global crisis scenarios, aggregated by Ushahidi users and visualizing data geospatially. allowing organizations to draw grows, they face a common It was born out of the 2008 situational awareness from the problem. How do they effectively election unrest when founders crowd. To date it’s been manage this realtime data? How Juliana Rotich, Erik Hersman, Ory downloaded over 15,000 times. can we help them discover Okolloh and David Kobia wanted credible and actionable info from to allow Kenyan citizens a way to S o m e o f t h e m o re n o t a b l e the deluge of reports they’ll get SMS reports of incident to know deployments include recently in from the public? The SwiftRiver what was occurring around them. Egypt, the Haiti earthquakes, the initiative was created to begin to This was one of the earliest uses fires in Russia, the Queensland answer some of these questions of crowdsourcing for crisis floods in Australia. for Ushahidi deployers. response.
- 3. SINSAI.INFO
- 5. UCHAGUZI
- 7. HARASSMAP
- 9. CHECKINS A quick method of dropping geo-cached notes, pics, messages, or other types of data using location aware devices.
- 10. USING CHECKINS ❖ Staff Locations ❖ Activity / Observations ❖ Landmarks ❖ Surveying ❖ Plotting Paths
- 11. USE CASES ❖ Near real-time ❖ Cheap to deploy ❖ Easy to use ❖ Fast
- 12. CHALLENGE SMS Sync + Checkins
- 13. World Bank Transport Forum 3/30/11 Jon Gosier @jongos