Name: 埃里克-赫斯曼：通过发短信来报告危机事件
Uploaded: 2009-04-22T01:00:00Z
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: 在2009年的TED大会，埃里克-赫斯曼呈现了一个在Ushahidi的显赫故事。GoogleMap mashup程序令肯尼亚人能够通过手机发短信跟踪报道2008年大选后的暴力事件。随着系统的进一步发展，它继续在其他国家地区拯救生命。

Erik Hersman: 埃里克-赫斯曼：通过发短信来报告危机事件

埃里克-赫斯曼：通过发短信来报告危机事件

在2009年的TED大会，埃里克-赫斯曼呈现了一个在Ushahidi的显赫故事。GoogleMap mashup程序令肯尼亚人能够通过手机发短信跟踪报道2008年大选后的暴力事件。随着系统的进一步发展，它继续在其他国家地区拯救生命。

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.