Activist Mapping
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Stuff I’m Excited About
Kenya Elections 2007
Getting from here
To here
President Mwai Kibakiincumbent
Raila Odingaopposition
Ethnicities vs Election
Media Blackout
traditional media blogs/social media
Ory Okollohkenyanpundit.com
Our Goals
• Create a way for everyday Kenyans to report incidents of violence that they saw
• Create an archive of news and reports around those same events
• Show where the majority of the violence was happening
Building It
• Detailed geospatial data is hard to come by in Africa
• How much should it be web-based in a mobile phone culture?
• Mobile phones - getting a full report in 140 characters is not easy
• What data points do we need?
Ushahidi Calendar27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 27
Jan. 10 - 75% of Kenyan bloggers write about Ushahidi
Jan. 12 - MSM pickup: BBC, NPR, Guardian, etc...
violence
idea, production, launch blogging and media
Jan. 3 - The idea of Ushahidi
Jan. 5 - Ushahidi discussed
Jan. 9 - Ushahidi launched
Jan.10 - Added functionality (RSS, SMS, etc...)
Jan. 6 - Ushahidi prototype
Jan. 22 - Ushahidi blog addedJan. 26 - Ushahidi timeline feature
Jan. 10 - Kenyan SMS shortcode partnership
Dec. 27 - Kenyan ElectionsDec. 27 - Dec. 30 - Period of uncertaintyDec. 30 - Jan. 1 - Media blackout
Lessons Learned
• The importance of mapping accuracy
• Data poisoning - what happens when your antagonist starts using it?
• Verification is difficult
• Clarify why it was created and make that inescapably obvious
• Create a feedback loop to end users
david kobiaory okolloherik hersmanjuliana rotich
On Activism
Activist AntagonistIssue
It turns out activists are just everyday people, most with limited technical acumen.
Global Activist Maps
Crisis in Darfur - http://www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/darfur
Sudan ICC War Criminals - http://www.wantedforwarcrimes.org
Global Voices Online Censorship - http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/maps
Tunisia Prisons Map - http://kitab.nl/tunisianprisonersmap
Bahrain Land Rights (PDF) - http://elijahzarwan.net/blog/?p=268
Chicago Idealist Network - http://www.chicagoidealistnetwork.org/2007/03/spaces.html
Operation Murambatsvina (Zimbabwe) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Murambatsvina
before after
Sokwanele “All Breaches” - http://www.sokwanele.com/map/all_breaches
Green Peace - http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/great-whale-trail/map
Planet Action - http://www.planet-action.org
I Love Mountains - http://www.ilovemountains.org
Mapping for human rights violations
vs
Mapping for activism
(activists are not the authority)
Think about how you can use your skills to helpin a cause that is important to you
Thank You