22. Who we are - What we do - How we work
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23. : “Your mission, if you choose to accept it...”
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24. Collaboration Gaps
Little Appropriate Design
No Sustainable Innovation
The Challenges
A little history
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25. Collaboration Gaps GeoChat, Riff, SeenTags etc...
Appropriate Design
No Sustainable Innovation
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26. Over 30% of our
users never access
the internet
Handsets don’t
support local
languages well
Timely information is
vital in remote
conditions and scarce
resources
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27. GeoChat is a messaging tool for chatting,
reporting and alerting designed for resource
constrained environments
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28. EIS powered 4636 and sent hundreds of
thousands of messages with relevant
information to Haitians
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From Syntax to SeenTags -
Using human supervision to tune parser algorithms
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33. 800 Hospitals in Thailand Change Fusion built them a system
needed to improve on GeoChat to collect symptoms
reporting and feedback and alert in realtime. Today it is
for H1N1, H5N1 deployed in 700+ facilities
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34. Project 4636
Rapid
integration &
collaboration
amongst
partners was
the ‘magic’ for
4636 -
next steps are
evaluating and
making it
predictable
EIS is a service of Thomson
Reuters Foundation
Schematic Produced by Ushahidi
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47. As Ketsana
struck Thailand,
health workers
using GeoChat
alerted each
other of floods
and how to
avoid injuries
Image (c) Sokunthea- Reuters/ Village north of Phnom Penh
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48. Breaking silos requires a multidisciplinary team, close to
the field, with a culture that celebrates lateral thinking
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