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Documenting Kenya’s Elections using Crisis Mapping Techniques

Started by Kate Brodock · 8 months ago

What are citizen journalists’ roles in documenting conflict and are those roles becoming more important?
Led by Patrick Meier, a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, I’m happy to report that we’ve just completed the first of ... Continue reading »

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  • nateritter

    8 months ago

    In answer to question #3, yes. http://crisiswire.com is going to be releasing soon and we're doing what Ushahidi is doing, but in the United States.
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  • John Blossom

    8 months ago

    Great analysis, clearly social media provides a complementary role in crises, spreading real-time news, then aggregating it when services like Ushahidi emerge to use social media aggregation tools that create a community knowledge bank. I highlighted some instances of this coordination in my book Content Nation, will highlight on the blog also.

    All the best,
    John Blossom
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  • Kate Brodock

    8 months ago

    John, thanks for the reply, I'll be sure to check out the book. What's your blog?
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  • Erik Hersman

    8 months ago

    The analysis work that Patrick has been busy doing is proving to be quite useful to us as we see the Ushahidi Engine being deployed elsewhere. Today it went live in the DRC (Congo). This is the first time that we're using the lessons we learned from Kenya and South Africa with the new software. Honestly, there's a major gap in data gathering from the ordinary public right now during a crisis. It'll be interesting to see where it goes, and we welcome feedback and thoughts on how to improve it.
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  • Kate Brodock

    8 months ago

    Hopefully we can fill this gap. I think there's SO much to learn from this data (and future data). Our next case study will be the Georgian/Russia conflict from earlier this year.
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