Comments on: Microblogging, Location and Emergencies

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By: Mikroblogging und soziale Bewegungen | blog.mensch.coop

Mikroblogging und soziale Bewegungen | blog.mensch.coop — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:06:16 +0000

[...] of digital activism” (we only care about a pothole if it’s on our street) and argues that location is the key in mobile crisis reporting, because location makes crisis information relevant to [...]

By: Which is a Better Mobile Citizen Reporting Tool: Twitter or Ushahidi? | Gauravonomics Blog

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:29:03 +0000

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By: Henry Addo Joins the Ushahidi Team - The Ushahidi Blog

Henry Addo Joins the Ushahidi Team - The Ushahidi Blog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:31:34 +0000

[...] As of this week, Henry will be working on Ushahidi as one of the core architecture and development team members. As part of the volunteer development community that works on Ushahidi, he has already created the Ushahidi Android app, and is now doing some new discovery work in the area of using Laconica in conjunction with Ushahidi, and the use of microblogging and mobile networks in emergencies. [...]

By: Mandino

Mandino — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:08:46 +0000

could this idea be useful too in Sudan? There is quite a lot of violence there in Sudan that this might prove useful in such events. I have been following a series of project with The Emma Academy Project, and I think that building a school will really help relieve the nation from the war, since the children will be learning a lot by then.

By: hash

hash — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:46:14 +0000

Thanks for the great feedback on this post so far. If Brightkite were to open source their platform so that it could be easily replicated and federated globally, then yes, it would be just about right for all this. The next best option is to have them part of some greater network of federated and unfederated microblogging services which have applications that all work independently and together as needed. Maybe one day…

What’s an even more important concept is that normal non-PC and non-internet users could be a big part of this. How could this be equally valuable to the user who never ever accesses the network via a PC? What then?

By: Flu alerts and what it is said about the future power of information : crisscrossed blog

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:33:26 +0000

[...] such as a definition on Wikipedia, in the future you can access it anywhere, and you also: a) get real time information about what happens around you and b) you get to participate collectively to refine information, for example through mobile [...]

By: Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:46:33 +0000

Sawa sawa, Erik, did some more thinking and wrote up a blog post in response to your comment:

“I don’t want to just get updates from random strangers in my locale. I want to only receive the ones that are ‘important’ to me.”

http://earlywarning.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/ushahidi-and-conflict-early-response

Thanks again for posting!