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Erik Hersman: How texting helped Kenyans survive crisis

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http://www.ted.com At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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  • Please reconstruct this system to work in America during a zombie apocalypse. kthx

  • "the most pathetic of the ego-boosts...the "first" comment "

    as a bystander I can assure you, the second most pathetic is the guy who replies to it in 500 characters....

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  • such a brilliant idea......

  • I wonder how he plans to "raid the different people who submit information"? What does that entail?

  • what a good-natured person, i wish him all the best in his endeavors...unfortunately due to corruption within africa, the crises that this program. identifies will still prolly take local govt. intervention to stop..but at least he's increasing awareness..

  • weak presentation

  • Twatter sucks, keeps bitches talkin when they should be productive. The crowdsourced information looks exactly like a womans brain, scrambled and eveything is related to everything. Anyways, awesome video!

  • How do we know they were really telling reality about themselves if they don't use their languages? It is good to see everybody is emerging but ... how come we don't care about the reality of other people?

  • Me.

  • who gives a fuck about you?

  • Me.

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