Nathaniel Manning (c)Yasuyoshi Chiba 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 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. Platform Community ushahidi.com Movement Changing the way information flows Massive Deployments March 2011 - 4,000+ reports Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis Mobile Free and open source SMS gateway for Android the default device Whitelabeling of Android and iOS apps Lessons Crowdsourcing platform must be easy to deploy, intuitive to use, simple to localize and customize “A map is only as useful as the process and people to make it happen.” -George Chamales, Rogue Genius slidesha.re/ushahidi_lessons Pothole Theory (CCby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462) The common denominator for successful is trust. BUILDING A DATA PLATFORM Growth & Scale Citizen Journalism December 2010 Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt harassmap.com Communities By the City / For the City (NYC) Integration of social media into placemaking practices, which are community centered, encouraging public participation, collaboration and transparency. urbandesignweek.org Election Monitoring May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 views Allow citizen reporting during election votereport.in August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 views Monitor Kenya referendum election uchaguzi.co.ke Limitless Creativity “The crowdsourced information keeps people aware...in which regular news outlets are often too bulky or slow to act...” - FastCompany Thank You ushahidi.com swiftly.org crowdmap.com APPENDIX ANALYSING DATA We have a Problem We are pummeled by information 250 million Tweets/day How do we find the one important drop of info? SwiftRiver is a curation tool that combines search with the power of the crowd Computer Intelligence The Human Hunch + Curate. Filter. Collaborate. CrowdSource the Filter Real-time information. Processed into a river. Filtered by the crowd. Visualized & organized. From This To This