Name: Erik Hersman o izvještavanju krize preko SMS-a
Uploaded: 2009-04-22T01:00:00Z
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: Na TEDU 2009., Erik Hersman predstavlja nevjerojatnu priču o Ushahidi, hibrid GoogleMap-e koja je dozvoljavala Kenijcima da prijave i prate nasilje putem SMS tekstova nakon izbora 2008., to se razvilo i nastavilo spašavati živote u drugim zemljama.

Erik Hersman: Erik Hersman o izvještavanju krize preko SMS-a

Erik Hersman o izvještavanju krize preko SMS-a

Na TEDU 2009., Erik Hersman predstavlja nevjerojatnu priču o Ushahidi, hibrid GoogleMap-e koja je dozvoljavala Kenijcima da prijave i prate nasilje putem SMS tekstova nakon izbora 2008., to se razvilo i nastavilo spašavati živote u drugim zemljama.

A platform born in Kenya during post-election violence let anyone report events with a mobile phone, transforming crisis response in just three days. This simple crowdsourced map has spread from Congo to Gaza, helping communities and NGOs worldwide track real-time events. As fast reporting outpaces our ability to process it, a new challenge emerges: making sense of a flood of eyewitness data. By building filters and crowd-based verification, this approach refines truth from chaos, proving that innovations born in Africa can lead the world.