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Nathaniel Manning
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(c)Yasuyoshi Chiba
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Founding Team
MIT Tech Review’s Top 35 under 35.
FastCompany’s ‘Most creative People’
World Economic Forum ICT Global
Council
TED Senior Fellow, Pop!Tech Fellow.
TIME Top 50 websites
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What is Ushahidi?
Open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
We build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for
individuals to share their stories.
PlatformCommunit
yMovement
ushahidi.com
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Changing the way information flows
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March 2011 - 4,000+ reportsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
Massive Deployments
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Free and open source SMS gateway for Android
Mobile
Whitelabeling of Android and iOS
apps
the defaultdevice
the defaultdevice
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Lessons
slidesha.re/ushahidi_lessons
“A map is only as useful as the process and people to make it
happen.”-George Chamales, Rogue Genius
Crowdsourcing platform must be easy to deploy, intuitive to use,
simple to localize and customize
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Pothole TheoryPothole Theory
(CCby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462)
(CCby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462)
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The common denominator for successful is trust.
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BUILDING A DATA PLATFORM
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Growth & Scale
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Citizen Journalism
December 2010 Help bring awareness to sexual harassment
in Egypt
harassmap.com urbandesignweek.org
By the City / For the City (NYC)Integration of social media into placemaking practices, which are community centered,
encouraging public participation, collaboration and transparency.
Communities
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Election Monitoring
May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 viewsAllow citizen reporting during election
August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 viewsMonitor Kenya referendum election
votereport.in uchaguzi.co.ke
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Limitless Creativity
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“The crowdsourced information keeps people aware...in which regular news outlets are often too
bulky or slow to act...” - FastCompany
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Thank You
ushahidi.com crowdmap.comswiftly.org
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APPENDIX
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ANALYSING DATA
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We have a ProblemWe are pummeled by information
250 million Tweets/dayHow do we find the one important drop of info?
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SwiftRiver is a curation tool that combines
search with the power of the crowd
Curate. Filter. Collaborate.
Computer Intelligence
The Human Hunch
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Real-time information. Processed into a river. Filtered by the crowd.Visualized & organized.
CrowdSource the Filter
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To ThisFrom This
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