Patrick Meier
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Ushahidi deploys to Haiti and Chile within hours, spins up an SMS shortcode crowdsourcing pipeline that receives thousands of texts a day, crowdsources translation and geolocation, and the Marine Corps FEMA and Coast Guard act on mapped tips. Mapping gaps in slums prevent many messages from being located because streets and GPS points simply do not exist on maps. Proposes partnering with OpenStreetMap and k p and building Turk-sourcing microtasks to farm out media monitoring and geocoding so untrained workers can find coordinates at scale.
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