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Ushahidi (ushahidi) Ushahidi. Ushahidi Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS) Handover in Haiti. [Guest blog post: Jonathan Shuler is the multimedia journalist behind several Ushahidi videos.

Handover in Haiti

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.

We are not meant to. We can’t keep everything in the front of our brain, it’s just not possible. In my opinion, this is the biggest obstacle to disaster recovery: endurance to see completion. Taking the Lead: Ushahidi-Haiti @ Tufts. The outstanding volunteer team at Tufts University has played an instrumental role in Ushahidi’s response to Haiti.

Taking the Lead: Ushahidi-Haiti @ Tufts

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. Haiti submit a report. Help us Map what's happening. Help us map what's happening in Haiti It's used by NGO's & others to do their job You help us get the important information coming from real-time news sources into the hands of the major NGOs and people on the ground in Haiti.

Help us Map what's happening

Look at the map above to see what kinds of information we need. Read the news stream → When you find a piece of actionable information, see if it's already on the map ↑ If it isn't, report it ↓ You've just made a difference! Information just like you are helping find for Haiti has previously been used to track and quell violence in Kenya, and to help responders address crisis situations in the Congo,India, South Africa and many other countries. This content is thanks to our partners at Ushahidi who have let haiti.com embed this project. Aza Raskin (azaaza) Campaign to Map Haiti. The mapping community has done an incredible job of mapping Haiti over the last couple days.

Campaign to Map Haiti

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. (Thanks to Nathan Felde for these banners and buttons to be used to help spread the word about the mapping campaigns and get this data out and open) “Drawing Together” seeks to enlist a community of interest for Haiti, to create maps, of the people, by the people and for the people, using the tools and resources of ushahidi.com and azarask.in/projects/haiti.

Challenge. Haiti:geolocatehospitalchallenge - Sahana WIKI. Ushahidi: Only 40 Left urgent need v... Ushahidi SituationRoom. Org chart situation room. Haiti Tracker. UpdateJan18 3AM@patrickmeier. Blog Update. We really couldn’t do this project with out the help of the Boston situation room.

Blog Update

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. (A video)] This has probably been the most incredible day thus far thanks to Brian, David, Josh & co: the 4636 SMS feature is up and running. Here’s a pic from the just-opened Washington DC situation room: Thanks everyone!

Needs Please contact us at the Situation Room if you’d like to be involved in that. Report (1/17/2010) « Ushahi. @Ushahidi situation room is active on day 3 of aggregatin... Ushahidi team Kenya. Shoutout to Java House. Ushahidi Situation Room Boston sur Flickr : partage de photos ! Haiti feed. Ushahidi: Really grateful to @phpdiv... Ushasite pie chart statist ics. Ushahidi pie chart statistics. Ushahidi RT@tel4rent: sms-to-donat... 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.

Swift River platform

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff. The purpose of Swift River is to validate crowdsourced information in near real-time.

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

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. In order for us to map an incident, we need to know some basic things. P2 WordPress Theme, like Twitter in a box.

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Ushahidi's. TV blogs tweets about Ushahidi Haiti. Technology Saves Lives In Haiti - Forbes.com. Geeks and technologists around the world are creating tools to help earthquake victims in Haiti.

Technology Saves Lives In Haiti - Forbes.com

These tools are focused around gathering and mapping the data, and broadcasting it to the relief workers on the ground. When the news of the earthquake broke, several groups and companies sprang into action very quickly. Ushahidi, a portal originally built to track election violence in Kenya, created Haiti.Ushahidi.com. The site, developed by Patrick Meier, director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, tracks incidents, search and rescue operations and people in Haiti.

A team of volunteers in Boston keep Haiti.Ushahidi running. So far more than 19,000 messages in English and Creole have been sent through the system, and the number of messages is increasing by 10% daily. @eyedol @kenyanpundit @afromusing #Ushahidi http:/ Sign up | Login Welcome Map Feed Details Download Help About Blog Back Photo World name. @whiteafrican @dkobia @chrissiy #Ushahidi. Sign up | Login Welcome Map Feed Details Download Help About Blog name @whiteafrican @dkobia @chrissiy #Ushahidi author Grimsel created on 30 Jan 2010 at 16:37.

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