Name: Relatos de crise através de mensagens de telemóveis
Uploaded: 2009-04-22T01:00:00Z
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: No TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman apresenta a espantosa história de Ushahidi, um "mashup" do GoogleMaps que permitiu aos quenianos relatar e localizar focos de violência através de mensagens de telemóvel, após as eleições de 2008, e que evoluiu para continuar a salvar vidas noutros países.

Erik Hersman: Relatos de crise através de mensagens de telemóveis

Relatos de crise através de mensagens de telemóveis

No TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman apresenta a espantosa história de Ushahidi, um "mashup" do GoogleMaps que permitiu aos quenianos relatar e localizar focos de violência através de mensagens de telemóvel, após as eleições de 2008, e que evoluiu para continuar a salvar vidas noutros países.

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.