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Crowdmap is a tool that allows you to crowdsource information and see it on a map and timeline. It is the Ushahidi platform, built by the team who created Ushahidi as a way for anyone to run...
If crowdmapping catches on, it has the potential to become a sort of geographical version of Wikipedia, crammed with location-based facts and figures, becoming a reference point not only for what...
Bribr is not the only crowdsourcing platform tracking bribery and corruption out there. Its currently dormant predecessor in the post-Soviet space – vzyatka.crowdmap.com [ru] – was launched by...
ElectUA.org [uk] is a crowdsourcing tool used to report and map election violations in Ukraine. A project of Internews-Ukraine, its goal [en] is “to encourage citizens to have active social...
Crowdmap is a tool that allows organisations to crowdsource information and see it on a map and timeline. It was created by Ushahidi, a non-profit technology company that created a crowdsourcing...
Now a crowd-mapping website, launched this week, will attempt to detail every such rape and incident of sexual violence against women throughout the conflict. The map is the creation of the...
A new crowdsourcing website seeks to tap into the wisdom of Chinese pedestrians and cyclists to identify areas in need of repair or improvement in Beijing. Developed by Beijing Transport Research...
Last week, we highlighted a TED Talk by Lucien Engelen, the man behind AED4.US, a crowdmapping effort that aims to pinpoint the locations of all automatic electronic defibrillators (AEDs). We got in touch with Engelen to find out more about his ambitious project and to get an update on the recent developments.
Transparent Chennai is a platform for citizen engagement which invites users, both individuals and groups, to create and submit their own data about the Indian city of Chennai. The aim is to help...
A citizen-report crowdsourcing and crowmapping platform powered by Ushahidi, Uchaguzi had teams across the globe working around the clock to track and verify reports via SMS, Twitter, and email on...
During 2011 there was a significant drought in Argentina. The limited official information led people to enter information into www.agrotestigo.crowdmap.com (Ushahidi platform). AgroTestigo...
Last month, the USAID used Data.gov in an innovative way – as a crowdsourcing platform. On June 1, a group of volunteers helped the agency map the locations of where the Development Credit Authority was issuing its loans.
In the wake of the recent Beijing floods, which caused at least 77 deaths as they rushed through the capital July 21, the crowd took to the web to map the most heavily impacted areas. The citizens’ joint crowdmapping effort not only materialized prior to the government-sanctioned map, but it also proved more accurate and intuitive.
A crowdmapping initiative named Syria Tracker is documenting killings in the war-ravaged country as the struggle between regime forces and opposition fighters drags on. Syria Tracker is especially important for documenting killings given that many non-profit organizations and journalists have pulled out of the country because of the violence.
In the Crowded Room this week, we look at controversial Kickstarter project Code Hero, a crowdmapping project for Syrian abuses and how Google pushed Chromebooks to classrooms on a crowdfunding platform.
One of the biggest use of the funds is in community engagement. They have an incredible Community Engagement Director on their team, Heather Leson, whose job is to connect and communicate between...
Kuhonga.com is a whistleblower website that provides a platform for the public to report incidents of corruption in real time.
It’s worth noting also that Ushahidi has come out against a new partnership between the World Bank with Google that is supposed to empower citizen cartographers in 150 countries, but which...
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Riding on the popularity of the find fuel twitter operation, Ushahidi Kenya started a website titled “Find Fuel in Nairobi” http://findfuel.crowdmap.com/main powered by crowdmap, a hosted version...
Being free and open source, Ushahidi can be deployed and configured as a community wishes. But what makes it an ideal platform for most communities is that there is a free web based deployment...
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