2. crowdsourcing crisis information

3. (c)Yasuyoshi Chiba

5. Data Types Input Methods Output Methods
Citizen
Generated Map
News Media SMS Timeline
Email
Web form
NGO data API SMS Alerts
Ushahidi
RSS Crisis Mapping
Government MMS Engine RSS
Public APIs Email
Flickr
YouTube
Twitter

6. Our Goals
• Create a way for everyday Kenyans to
report incidents of violence that they saw
using the tools they had (mobile phones)
• Create an archive of news and reports
around those same events
• Show where the majority of the violence
was happening

10. the
default
device

11. Mobile
Ci)zen
Repor)ng

12. FrontlineSMS+Ushahidi
SMS => Cloud

13. info@ushahidi.com

14. juliana rotich erik hersman ory okolloh david kobia
info@ushahidi.com

15. Future
Dev!

16. if it works in
africa
it will work
anywhere

17. What
are we
trying to
achieve?

18. Ensuring that others don’t
have to start from scratch,
like we did.

23. Our Guiding Values
openness
|
innova)on
|
community

24. Thank You