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Ushahida - Crowd sourcing news in Congo

  • Nov 8th, 2008
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  • Resources, ethics, global project, humanities, web2.0, website
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    • This is an neat tool that allows you to submit news and incidents as they happen. The tool was used in Kenya during the elections and South Africa and was used to map the violence that unfolded there. It is now being used in the Congo to bring incidents and reports out from the areas of conflict where communications are often poor.

    http://drc.ushahidi.com/

    This is crowd sourcing. Its also an open source project.

    This image is from the TED Blog. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDBlog/~3/446039989/ushahidi_lauche.php

    andrewch posted this entry on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 4:21 pm. Posted in the category Resources, ethics, global project, humanities, web2.0, website You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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