what if citizens mapped health?
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What if citizens mapped health?
Heather Leson@heatherleson
AMREF
March 7, 2012
Social ImpactEnabling the wider coverage of crisis, elections and political movements that would otherwise be unreported or underreported
Create an easy-to-use tool that is freely and instantly available to individuals, NGOs and other organizations allowing them to focus on mobilizing the content and the response
Facilitate transparency and accountability by amplifying citizen voices with a consumer-focused tool, designed with areas with limited access in mind
Developing ability for stakeholders in a particular situation to share and find data
Disaster Response
March 2011 - 10,000+ reports, 144,974 viewsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
sinsai.info/ushahidi uchaguzi.co.ke
Election Monitoring
August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 viewsMonitor Kenya referendum election
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https://hondurashealthmapping.crowdmap.com/main
http://www.cic.mx/tehuan/
strong community partnerships: civil society, public and private
all channels: mobile app, sms (citivox, webform, email, twitter, facebook, street teams
Accountability: you get a ticket
SMS QUESTION: “Al Jazeera would like to know — how has the Somalia Conflict affected your life? Please also include the name of your hometown in the response. Thanks.”
Thank you.