1. Nathaniel Manning nathaniel@ushahidi.com @natpmanning

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

6. 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

7. Changing the way information flows

8. Disaster Response March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 views Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis January 2010 - 3,584 reports, 500,000 views Allowed Haitians to report location and needs sinsai.info/ushahidi haiti.ushahidi.com

9. 3 Days 3 Hours 3 Minutes

10. BUILDING A PLATFORM

11. Growth & Scale

13. 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

14. Our Rio +20 Citizen Engagement

15. Custom Projects

17. ECOCITIZEN MAP

18. Limitless Creativity

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

20. We don’t just create products, we fix real problems

21. Thank You ushahidi.com crowdmap.comswiftly.org Nathaniel Manning nathaniel@ushahidi.com @natpmanning

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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