WhatWhat’’s in the toolkit? s in the toolkit? Using Ushahidi for development, research and beyondUsing Ushahidi for development, research and beyond

Heather Leson@heatherleson

hleson@ushahidi.com

North-South Centre for Research for

DevelopmentAnnual Conference, ETHz

November 10, 2011

UshahidiUshahidi = = TestimonyTestimony

•Born out of the post-election violence in Kenya Born out of the post-election violence in Kenya in 2008, used to map reports of violence and in 2008, used to map reports of violence and peace efforts throughout the country.peace efforts throughout the country.

Social ImpactSocial Impact• Enabling the wider coverage of crisis, elections Enabling the wider coverage of crisis, elections

and political movements that would otherwise be and political movements that would otherwise be unreportedunreported or underreported or underreported

• Create an easy-to-use tool that is Create an easy-to-use tool that is freelyfreely and and instantly availableinstantly available to individuals, NGOs and to individuals, NGOs and other organizations allowing them to focus on other organizations allowing them to focus on mobilizing the content and the responsemobilizing the content and the response

• Facilitate Facilitate transparencytransparency and and accountabilityaccountability by by amplifying citizen voices with a consumer-focused amplifying citizen voices with a consumer-focused tool, designed with areas with limited access in tool, designed with areas with limited access in mindmind

• Developing ability for stakeholders in a particular Developing ability for stakeholders in a particular situation to situation to shareshare and and findfind data data

Disaster Disaster ResponseResponse

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

sinsai.info/ushahidi uchaguzi.co.ke

Election Election MonitoringMonitoring

August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 viewsMonitor Kenya referendum election

Citizen MediaCitizen Media

December 2010 - 319 reports, 156,859 views

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.

CommunitiesCommunities

Volunteers Public /Victims

Public / News

Consumers

Responders

Public / News

ProducersAdvertisers

FundersDonors

Activists

GovernmentPolicy

Stand-By Task Force Stand-By Task Force (SBTF)(SBTF)

“We are the people who map for three hours at night instead of watching TV. We are the people who wake up

early before work, log into Skype and add a few reports to the map. We are the people who may drop everything to map for four days. We are communications and friends.”

- Heather Leson, SBTF volunteer

standbytaskforce.com

Libya CrisisLibya Crisis

libyacrisismap.net

The Libya Crisis Map deployed by request of UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

ProductsProducts

What about Universities?What about Universities?

Connecting AcademiaConnecting Academia

ResourcesResources• http://community.ushahidi.com/research/

• http://irevolution.net/

• http://www.undispatch.com/disaster-relief-2-0-what-the-un-could-not-hav-done-without-the-volunteer-technical-community

• http://hub.nethope.org/2011/09/what-ict%E2%80%99s-role-in-the-pakistan-floods-means-for-emergency-preparedness/

• http://crisismappers.net/

• http://members.standbytaskforce.com/

• http://gwob.org/

• http://crisiscommons.org/

• http://www.rhok.org

• http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/category/evaluation-2/

Thank YouThank You