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Handover in Haiti
[Guest blog post: Jonathan Shuler is the multimedia journalist behind several Ushahidi videos. He has collaborated on the "Haiti trilogy" that includes Haiti 4636 and Ushahidi Haiti .] When was the last time you thought about the 2005 Tsunami in South East Asia? Thousands of people died, the GDP of many coastal economies in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives will not recover for another 10 years, but when did you last think about it? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t thought about it in a few years, I saw the devastation with my own eyes and I hardly think about it.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.
Taking the Lead: Ushahidi-Haiti @ Tufts
Campaign to Map Haiti
The mapping community has done an incredible job of mapping Haiti over the last couple days. Efforts from the OpenStreetMap community, the International Community of Crisis Mappers and Crisis Commons (among others) have been significant. Let’s get more people involved in this. The Drawing Together Campaign
We really couldn’t do this project with out the help of the Boston situation room. They are combing through the reports, getting updates via many different forms of media – basically making sense of a mountain of incoming data. On top of that, they’re coordinating with many more thousands of individuals all over the world to help find critical data on locations, needs and confirmations with the people on the ground in Haiti. (by @mbelinsky ) [ This message from Patrick Meier, Director of crisis mapping and partnerships for Ushahidi, who is coordinating out of Boston and is the lead on the Haiti deployment for us.
Blog Update
Swift River platform
This is an update on the latest Swift River open group meeting that took place this morning at the InSTEDD office in Palo Alto. Ushahidi colleague Kaushal Jhalla first proposed the idea behind Swift River after the terrorist attacks on Mumbai last November. Ushahidi has since taken on the initiative as a core project since the goal of Swift River is central to the group’s mission: the crowdsourcing of crisis information.
The purpose of Swift River is to validate crowdsourced information in near real-time. In the past few weeks, Ushahidi has received nearly one hundred thousand reports of incident related to Haiti. The majority of these coming from Twitter. Because crowdsourced information often has varying degrees of accuracy, an application is needed to validate this information in a timely manner, especially for Ushahidi.
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
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