Crowdsourcing the Impossible: Ushahidi-Haiti
summary
A volunteer-run Ushahidi crisis map pulls tweets, Facebook posts, radio calls, Skype calls and high-resolution satellite imagery into a single feed, geolocating reports and handing GPS coordinates to responders. About 300 volunteers manually code and vet incoming data, turn a tweeted plea into a mapped address (using Lonely Planet and a former employee’s tip), produce seven locations, one survivor, and directly inform Marines and SAR teams with actionable coordinates.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Introduction to Ushahidi
- 1:14Search and rescue coordination
- 2:23Crowdsourcing the solution
- 5:12The power of volunteerism
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