1. PIVOTING
AN AFRICAN OPEN
SOURCE PROJECT
David Kobia - @dkobia
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7. “Citizens that were once only passive
recipients of information are now
contributors to the story.”
- Dale Zak, Ushahidi developer
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9. 4000+ reports and 150,000 views 3,584 reports and 500,000 views
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12. FIRST LESSONS
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13. Capturing
Storing
Calculating
Media monitoring
Sourcing
Geotagging
Categorization
Analysis
Report authoring
Verification
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15. Media monitoring Geotagging
Sourcing
Media monitoring
Sourcing Analysis Categorization
Geotagging
Categorization
Analysis
Report authoring Report authoring Verification
Verification
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18. NEW CHALLENGES
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20. It’s hard to make sense of
a lot of real-time information
in short periods of time.
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21. “IT’S NOT INFORMATION OVERLOAD.
IT’S FILTER FAILURE”
- Clay Shirky
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22. Truth is subjective
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23. WE WILL BUILD IT
STRONGER + FASTER + BETTER
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26. CROWDSOURCE
THE FILTER
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28. Real-time information. Processed into a river. Filtered by the crowd. Visualized & organized.
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29. Curate
Media monitoring Filter
Sourcing
Geotagging
Categorization Collaborate
Analysis
Annotating
Verifying
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42. swiftly.org
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43. LESSONS
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44. STFUP and Just Do IT
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45. use what you know
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46. $software !== $product
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47. Simple, Stupid
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48. </ it would be cool if >
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49. ‘Open’... really open
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50. Don’t just create products,
solve real problems
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51. Developers
Testers
Translators
Mappers
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52. DAVID KOBIA
email david@ushahidi.com
web www.ushahidi.com
twitter @dkobia
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