Name: Erik Hersman e o relato de conflitos via mensagens de texto
Uploaded: 2009-04-22T01:00:00Z
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: Na TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman apresentou a fantástica historia da Ushahidi, um mash-up do Google Maps que permitu que quenianos relatassem conflitos por meio de mensagens de texto após as eleições de 2008, e que evoluiu e a ponto de salvar vidas em vários outros países.

Erik Hersman: Erik Hersman e o relato de conflitos via mensagens de texto

Erik Hersman e o relato de conflitos via mensagens de texto

Na TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman apresentou a fantástica historia da Ushahidi, um mash-up do Google Maps que permitu que quenianos relatassem conflitos por meio de mensagens de texto após as eleições de 2008, e que evoluiu e a ponto de salvar vidas em vários outros 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.