How to locate info and share with Ushahidi

http://www. allianceguinea.org/ushahidi

Create your workspace

• You will need a number of browser tabs and online tools:

• Twitter app/website, twitter search space, blog search

• Translation Tool (Google Translate, Yahoo Babel fish, other)

• Mapping Tool (OpenStreet Map, Google maps)

• Ushahidi Report page (varies by crisis). (eg. http://www.allianceguinea.org/ushahidi/reports/submit)

• Wikipedia (to search towns, cities, countries etc.)

Key Tasks

• Look for common search terms, hashtags

• Set up alerts, twitter columns or browser tabs to monitor for information

• Analyze the content for relevance

• Add report to Ushahidi

There will be many tweets, blog posts etc.

This is time consuming to review/analyze and choose.

There will be key info that might be important to someone.

What Should I Report?

• Information collected can be classified according to the existing codes

Mass DemonstrationVoter Education

Voting IrregularityViolence

Voter IntimidationCampaign Event

Election PreparationHigh Voter TurnoutThreat of Violence

How to Add an Ushahidi Report

Part 1:The Ushahidi report

Part 2: Ushahidi Report

How to Add an Ushahidi Report

• Open the Ushahidi report page: . http://www.allianceguinea.org/ushahidi/reports/submit

• Add all the content you have collected:

• Report title (use keywords like location and category/type of report)

• Description (add in English and a the local language)

• Categories/define tag

• Your contact info (this is optional, but might help)

• Geo code info: Longitude and latitude. (open street map, google map or even wikipedia will have this)

• Add the link of the tweet, news source, picture, video etc.

Click Submit

Thank you. You have helped.