Ushahidi. Ushahidi Haiti. Taking the Lead: Ushahidi-Haiti @ Tufts. The outstanding volunteer team at Tufts University has played an instrumental role in Ushahidi’s response to Haiti. They trained hundreds of volunteers and set up Situation Rooms in Washington DC, Geneva, London and Portland. Together, they mapped over 3,000 urgent and actionable reports on Ushahidi-Haiti from a multitude of sources including text messages from Haiti. They also coordinated directly with responders on the ground and helped save hundreds of lives. We often get the question: why Tufts? The short answer is that I happen to be completing my PhD at The Fletcher School. So when the earthquake struck Haiti, I was able to reach out to friends and colleagues on campus for their help. But little did I know just how much of an incredible movement was about to be launched.
This is why Ushahidi is now formally partnering with Ushahidi-Haiti @ Tufts who will take the lead on Ushahidi-Haiti from here-on.
Mission 4636. Feeding Amazon's Cloud of Workers with Virtual Peas - ReadWriteC. Crowdsourcing may be stretching the geo-political landscape much the same way that cloud computing is redefining the data center. In short, nothing is safe and yet everything has the promise of being better. Companies, industries, and economies are forming in the cloud by taking on these tasks and participating in the ecosystem across the world. For the last several years, Amazon has been leading the way in defining this market with Mechanical Turk. Today, when we checked, there are 75,000 HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) waiting to be collected on. Last night's crowdsourcing panel at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club included several thought leaders, and was moderated by Brad Stone of the New York Times. There are a number of twists and turns already being uncovered in the world of cloud sourcing. Working On The Virtual Farm Lukas Biewald, CEO of CrowdFlower shared his company's success in being a platform for crowdsourcing.
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