Hendy Addo presentation session 2 gfke 2014

1. Henry Addo - @eyedol
@ushahidi

2. What is Ushahidi?
Open source software for information collection,
visualization and interactive mapping.
Platform Community Movement

3. History
"Ushahidi", which means "testimony" in Swahili,
was a website that was initially developed
to map reports of violence in Kenya
after post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008.

4. • Click to edit Master text styles
• Second level
• Third level
• Fourth level
• Fifth level

5. Social Impact
• Enabling the wider coverage of crisis (and other
situations e.g. elections, MP performance) that would
otherwise be unreported or under reported
• Creating 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

6. “If it works in Africa,
it can work anywhere”

7. Maps
Over 20,000 deployments and counting

8. Election Monitoring
Allow citizen reporting during election Monitor Kenya referendum election

9. Citizen Journalism
Document human and ecological impact of
the oil spill
Help bring awareness to sexual harassment
in Egypt

10. Disaster Response
Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis Allowed Haitians to report location and needs

11. Social Revolutions
Map location of Occupy movements across
Monitor Arab Spring evolution in Egypt the US

13. Open Source
GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL)

14. Crowdmap
Crowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi ‘in the
cloud’ without having to install it on your own web server.

15. 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

16. Haiti 2010

17. Thank you
ushahidi.com crowdmap.com