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Ushahidi Crowdsourcing Crisis Information
We built the Ushahidi platform as a tool to easily crowdsource information using multiple channels, including SMS, email, Twitter and the web.
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Ushahidi Racking up Downloads
The Ushahidi platform's growing use has been astounding to say the least. The platform has been download almost 4,000 times.BBC News - News from the web during a crisis
SwiftRiver attempts to siphon off useful information from the web "It took a long time for the international media to pick up on the story, so I spent a long time following the Kampala hashtag on Twitter and checking my e-mail," said Jonathan Gosier, an American programmer living in the country. As the riot intensified, information flooded the web, making it more and more difficult to follow what exactly was going on, he said.
Ten Ways to Use SwiftRiver – The Ushahidi Blog
On August 30th we’ll release the first public beta of the SwiftRiver platform, an open source toolkit of semantic web technologies. It’s been a busy few months as we’ve been working round the clock to bring you a solid product. The most obvious use of Swift, what organizations like Ushahidi will use it for, is to help manage large streams of real-time content.
Swift River: Trying to Filter the Social Web Firehose
Anyone who has tried to track dozens of Twitter streams, hundreds of Facebook updates or thousands of blog posts simultaneously knows that the social web can be an intimidating — and never-ending — ocean of information, one that constantly threatens to swamp us.
As for the human element, “We’re betting the [farm] on hybrids.
The Challenge of Verifying Crowdsourced Information : CJR
Women Under Siege is calling on women and men from Syria and those working with Syrian refugees to provide us with reports of sexual violence as the crisis unfolds. We are relying on you to help us discover whether rape and sexual assault are widespread--such evidence can be used to aid the international community in grasping the urgency of what is happening in Syria, and can provide the base for potential future prosecutions.