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Ushahidi Platform V2

Ushahidi Platform V2

It’s Been Used a Lot

40,921 Deployments

49,206 Mobile Downloads

Sudden-Onset Crisis

March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 views!Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis

January 2010 - 3,584 reports, 500,000 views!Allowed Haitians to report location and needs

sinsai.info/ushahidi haiti.ushahidi.com

Security and Ebola

Worldwide Food Prices

Back-end Tour

New Crowdmap = stories

Ushahidi Platform V3 = more good stuff

eg. Platform V3 = more visualisations

Practical

Before you touch the tech, you need to think about…

• Why you’re crowdsourcing • Which effects you want to create • Who your sources are • What your input channels are • Privacy and Security • Who is going to man your deployment • Basic site details

Basic Site Details• Web address • Title • Subtitle • Geographical area • Categories list • About page contents • Contact details (e.g. email address)

Basic Site Setup

Go to crowdmap.com

Sign up

Sign up

Go to your new map

Meet your Admin Panel

Set up the Map

Set up the Categories list

Create an About page

You’ve now got a site…test it!

Adding A Report

Why Aren’t my Reports Visible?

Ta-da!

More

Languages

Custom Forms

CSV Inputs/Outputs

Twitter Feed

Twitter Messages

Twitter “Create a Report”

Plugins

SMS feeds

Map Layers

Where to go from hereUshahidi Platform help and advice: • https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Ushahidi+Platform+v2.x • Ushahidi IRC group • www.ushahidi.com !

Creating a non-hosted site: • https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web

ping.Ushahidi.com (accessible via mobile or desktop)

Send Message:

“are you ok?” as a text message & email

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family or team member

Next contact (spouse, roommate, friend)

A group Check-in Tool for Emergencies

Connecting people

to eduction, social, and communications

Connecting sensors

and information to responders, technicians, and analyst

Two roles, One BRCK

*photo credit Charity Water