Nathaniel Manning

(c)Yasuyoshi Chiba

Founding Team

MIT Tech Review’s Top 35 under 35.

FastCompany’s ‘Most creative People’

World Economic Forum ICT Global

Council

TED Senior Fellow, Pop!Tech Fellow.

TIME Top 50 websites

What is Ushahidi?

Open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

We build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for

individuals to share their stories.

PlatformCommunit

yMovement

ushahidi.com

Changing the way information flows

March 2011 - 4,000+ reportsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis

Massive Deployments

Free and open source SMS gateway for Android

Mobile

Whitelabeling of Android and iOS

apps

the defaultdevice

the defaultdevice

Lessons

slidesha.re/ushahidi_lessons

“A map is only as useful as the process and people to make it

happen.”-George Chamales, Rogue Genius

Crowdsourcing platform must be easy to deploy, intuitive to use,

simple to localize and customize

Pothole TheoryPothole Theory

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The common denominator for successful is trust.

BUILDING A DATA PLATFORM

Growth & Scale

Citizen Journalism

December 2010 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.

Communities

Election Monitoring

May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 viewsAllow citizen reporting during election

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

votereport.in uchaguzi.co.ke

Limitless Creativity

“The crowdsourced information keeps people aware...in which regular news outlets are often too

bulky or slow to act...” - FastCompany

Thank You

ushahidi.com crowdmap.comswiftly.org

APPENDIX

ANALYSING DATA

We have a ProblemWe are pummeled by information

250 million Tweets/dayHow do we find the one important drop of info?

SwiftRiver is a curation tool that combines

search with the power of the crowd

Curate. Filter. Collaborate.

Computer Intelligence

The Human Hunch

+

Real-time information. Processed into a river. Filtered by the crowd.Visualized & organized.

CrowdSource the Filter

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