This presentation covers some of the health applications for Ushahidi. This was first presented at the Voice of America Workshop on Disaster Preparedness and Influenza in 2011.
6. Platform
• Collect reports via SMS, social media, smart
phone applications and other sources.
• Moderate and visualize reports on a map
and timeline.
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7. Platform
• Suite of APIs and applications
• Manage realtime data streams like RSS,
SMS, Twitter & Email
• Identify relationships between content
• Set parameters to auto-filter incoming feeds
• Curate content based on preferences
• http://swiftly.org
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8. • Hosted version of the Ushahidi Platform
that anyone can sign up for.
• Free Subdomain ex: http://flutracker.crowdmap.com
• Launch a basic Ushahidi deployment
lightning fast
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9. Deployment Countries
Afghanistan Albania Algeria Argentina Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh
Barbados Belarus Belgium Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria
Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chad Chile China Colombia Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote
d'Ivoire Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic DRC Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Estonia
Ethiopia Finland France Germany Ghana Greece Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti
Honduras Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kenya
Kuwait Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Liberia Libya Lithuania Macedonia Malawi Malaysia
Mexico Moldova Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal
Maldives Mali Malta
Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Papua
New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Reunion Romania Russian
Federation Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovenia Somalia South Africa
South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania
Thailand Timor-Leste Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom
United States Venezuela Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
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as of September 2011
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24. “Overall, we created a map that at many
points during the day was more accurate
than the Transport for London website, and
which was a live and updated version of
what was happening out on the streets of
London. And, most importantly, it was built
by the people of London.”
- Claire Wardle
Lessons Learned: http://crwd.mp/edoVcb
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32. Angry Map in Taiwan, maintained by
Taiwan Blogger's association , aims to
encourage people to contribute their
observation about Public Grievances.
http://tba.tw/ma
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