1. Nathaniel Manning

2. (c)Yasuyoshi Chiba

3. 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

4. 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. PlatformCommunityMovement ushahidi.com

5. Changing the way information flows

6. March 2011 - 4,000+ reports Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis Massive Deployments

8. Free and open source SMS gateway for Android Mobile Whitelabeling of Android and iOS apps the default device the default device

10. 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

11. Pothole Theory (CCby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462)http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462 (CCby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462)http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/211169462

12. The common denominator for successful is trust.

13. BUILDING A DATA PLATFORM

14. Growth & Scale

16. 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

17. Election Monitoring May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 views Allow citizen reporting during election August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 views Monitor Kenya referendum election votereport.in uchaguzi.co.ke

18. Limitless Creativity

20. “The crowdsourced information keeps people aware...in which regular news outlets are often too bulky or slow to act...” - FastCompany

21. Thank You ushahidi.com crowdmap.comswiftly.org

22. APPENDIX

23. ANALYSING DATA

24. We have a Problem We are pummeled by information 250 million Tweets/day How do we find the one important drop of info?

25. SwiftRiver is a curation tool that combines search with the power of the crowd Curate. Filter. Collaborate. Computer Intelligence The Human Hunch +

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

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