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Ushahidi, la plate-forme de géolocalisation des évènements critiques | Transition-Energie.com
Ushahidi est une plate-forme participative de géolocalisation d’un évènement critique , où chacun peut témoigner de ce qui se passe: catastrophes, scènes de guerre civile, violences. Elle recueille en temps réel les contributions par SMS, twitter ou internet, selon le principe du crowdsourcing . Ushahidi est née de la violence ethnique au Kenya en 2008, provoquée à la suite d’élections truquées. C’est une avocate Ory Okolloh à qui est venue l’idée de créer le concept. La géolocalisation des évènements de la crise pétrolière L’énorme intérêt d’une plate-forme de géolocalisation en crowdsourcing est qu’elle permettra évidemment de témoigner par rapport à la thématique de transition-energie.com .
This article was co-authored by Mayur Patel Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti last January, killing more than 230,000 people and leaving several million inhabitants of the small island nation homeless. Though natural disasters are common, the humanitarian response this time was different: New media and communications technologies were used in unprecedented ways to aid the recovery effort.
MediaShift . How Mapping, SMS Platforms Saved Lives in Haiti Earthquake | PBS
At CrisisCamp Toronto, we created this step-by-step guide to help anyone get involved. We volunteered on Saturday, February 27, 2010 for the Earthquake in Chile and the Pacific Rim Tsunami.
How to Help with Ushahidi
Treehugger Snowmageddon is a website set up to help people dig out of the blizzard in New York.
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We use FrontlineSMS so that we can provide local numbers in areas where the larger SMS gateways don’t operate. For instance, if you were to try to run this in Zambia, you’d probably get a UK phone number if you went through Clickatell. However, we do use Clickatell for the messages that we route back to the original sender due to cost savings. They also have a very nice, easy to use API.
SMS Reporting Through Ushahidi – The Ushahidi Blog
A lack of communication can be a major barrier for grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in developing countries. FrontlineSMS is the first text messaging system created exclusively with this problem in mind. By leveraging basic tools already available to most NGOs — computers and mobile phones — FrontlineSMS enables instantaneous two-way communication on a large scale.
