Presentation about Ushahidi for Virtual Revolution BBC

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Academic Year 2016/2017 presented by Vincent TAGATSI

INTRODUCTIONWhat is Ushahidi ? Founding TeamComponents of a Ushahidi instanceCase studies: elections crisis o Election Monitoring Building a DATA PLATFORMo statisticsUshahidi___HAïTI

What is Ushahidi?Swahili for “witness” or “testimony”Originated from electoral violence in Kenya in 2008A crisis mapping tool and/or an early warning systemFree, easy to use, deployable worldwide“open source” application and Over 4,000 downloads

Founding Team

What is Ushahidi?

Ushahidi components / MobileThe map itself i.e. density bubbles, zoom, satellite viewCategories i.e. police action, aid distribution, infrastructure, logistics,

violence, hate speech, positive events, Interactive timeline graph / Twitter feed / Alerts for your areaReport submission via SMS, email, tweet or online form

the default deviceFree SMS gateway for Android and iOS apps

E L E C T I O N S CRISIS ‘Verification’ guides and electoral procedures Is Africa Ushahidi-ready?Case of those countries: o Kenya 2008, o Tanzania 2010, o Ivory Coast 2010o DR Congo 2011Electoral overview

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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

BUILDING A DATA PLATFORM

Statistics

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Webography--- https://vimeo.com/7838030

--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhT3co2qNAA

--- http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/video/2013/01/25/au-kenya-un-logiciel-citoyen-pour-prevenir-la-violence_1822694_3212.html

--- http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20100611-ushahidi-le-temoignage-voix

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