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(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.
PlatformCommunit
yMovement
ushahidi.com
Changing the way information flows
Disaster Response
March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 viewsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
January 2010 - 3,584 reports, 500,000 viewsAllowed Haitians to report location and
needs
sinsai.info/ushahidi haiti.ushahidi.com
3 Days
3 Hours
3 Minutes
BUILDING A PLATFORM
Growth & Scale
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
Our Rio +20
Citizen Engagement
Custom Projects
ECOCITIZEN MAP
Limitless Creativity
“The crowdsourced information keeps people aware...in which regular news outlets are often too
bulky or slow to act...” - FastCompany
We don’t just create products,
we fix real problems
APPENDIX
ANALYSING DATA
We have a ProblemWe are pummeled by information
250 million Tweets/dayHow do we find the one important drop of info?
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
To ThisFrom This
