data

Ushahidi welcomes Kenya Open Data Initiative

On the 8th of July 2011 the Government of Kenya launched a new Open Government Data Portal that will for the first time make several large government data sets available to researchers and the general public.

Experimenting with Aid Information

[Alena Stern ’12 is an AidData research assistant at the College of William and Mary]

Algorithms Augmenting Human Decisions

Here’s an update about the SwiftRiver platform from PDF11 which I had the pleasure of speaking at yesterday. My slides are below and here you can find video of my presentation.

Voix des Kivus: A Crowd-Seeding System in DRC

[Guest blog post by Peter van der Windt, PhD candidate in Political Science at Columbia University focusing on Africa.

A Word from the Evaluators of the Ushahidi Haiti Project

[Guest blog post by the principal co-investigators of the Ushahidi Haiti Project evaluation]

The Immediacy of the Crowd

Ushahidi is often deployed for crisis and disaster response, where information needs to be timely.

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