Ushahidi-Chile: Civil Society and Earthquake Reconstruction
[Guest Blog Post: Caroline Stauffer traveled to Chile in early May with Anahi Ayala Iacucci to speak with Chilean organizations about Ushahidi-Chile. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s...
View ArticleUnited States Institute of Peace Report on Ushahidi-Haiti
As many fans and supporters of Ushahidi recall, the Ushahidi−Haiti Project raised the profile of crisis mapping to a new level. It demonstrated the potential of crowdsourced maps for targeted disaster...
View ArticleEnthusiasts will make Serbia a better place
[This post is an excerpt from the PeckoPivo blog. The project below received the “Special award for activism on the Internet” at Web Fest 2010 as well as the “IT Globe 2010”, an annual award for...
View ArticleLaunching Eq.org.nz for the New Zealand Earthquake
[Guest blog post by Heather Leson, an idea hacker and community builder. She is a CrisisCommons Community Working Group Co-lead, CrisisCommons Canada lead and member of the CrisisMappers Standby Task...
View ArticleCrisis Mapping Japan’s Earthquake and How You Can Help
Members of the Japanese OpenStreetMap community launched an Ushahidi platform for Japan just hours after the devastating earthquake struck the country. Less than 24 hours later, Japanese students at...
View ArticleHeatmapping the Japanese Earthquake Reports
We’re trying to come up with other ways of visualizing Ushahidi data. Using the Ushahidi API, Emmanuel whipped up a heatmap of the Japan deployment (http://sinsai.info/ushahidi). You can see it live...
View ArticleCrisis Mapping Japan
[Guest blog post by Hal Seki, the managing director of Sinsai.info] Hi, my name is Hal Seki. I am the managing director of sinsai.info. I am CEO of Georepublic Japan, and also a member of OpenStreetMap...
View ArticleA Word from the Evaluators of the Ushahidi Haiti Project
[Guest blog post by the principal co-investigators of the Ushahidi Haiti Project evaluation] With the release of the final evaluation report, the evaluation team would like to share a few additional...
View ArticleCrowdmapping the Van Earthquake in Turkey with Al Jazeera
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera launched this Crowdmap within hours of the earthquake that struck eastern Turkey on October, 23, 2011. The crisis map includes information on needs, help facilities and...
View ArticleHaiti and the Power of Crowdsourcing
It’s been two years today since Haiti’s devastating earthquake… here’s a blog post from then on the power of crowdsourcing in crisis response. Cross-posted from iRevolution.net It’s been two weeks...
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