Erik Hersman: Erik Hersman o krízovom spravodajstve cez SMSky

Erik Hersman o krízovom spravodajstve cez SMSky

Na TEDU 2009 Erik Hersman prezentuje pozoruhodný príbeh Ushahidi, aplikáciu vytvorenú na  Google Mapách, ktorá po voľbách 2008 umožnila Keňanom reportovať a sledovať násilnosti prostredníctvom SMSiek v mobiloch a pokračovala v záchrane životov aj v iných krajinách.

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.