Ushahidi leads way to crisis news curation systems

Hours after the Haiti earthquake happened Patrick Meier and a group of friends developed http://www.ushahidi.com/ to help people and organizations to figure out where to send resources in Haiti. They crowd-sourced information about where problem areas were using real time tools like cell phone texts, tweets, Facebook pages' messages, blogs, and news reports and mapped those. It built a system that pinpointed where rescue workers and relief organizations should send their resources to do the most good. But it also led to something else: a new kind of real-time curation system. I talk with Patrick at the Where 2.0 conference about these systems and what he's learned about crisis mapping and real time news.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• geolocation
• news
• real time
• curation
• mapping
• crisis
• haiti
• Ushahidi
• patrick meier

[groovedigger91]

Amazing, amazing, amazing. The social revolution reaches nirvana!

[smithwicktom]

Thank you! This is spectacular.

[Suha325]

This is a gem! Thanks to both of you.

[thetsudo]

In case you are looking to follow them on twitter, Patrick is @patrickmeier and the org is @ushahidi

Great interview. Thanks Robert

[thetsudo]

In case you are looking to follow them on twitter, Patrick is @patrickmeier and the org is @ushahidi

Great interview. Thanks Robert

[higgsbosonqbit]

Wow!! Thanks Robert for helping to spread the word about Swift River. Dynamic multi-source verifying veracity is the way to go.