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What's the best way to share urgent information in a crisis?
Ushahidi is a powerful new tool to share information in a crisis — whether it's an earthquake, a pandemic, or outbreaks of violence. Your learn mission this week is to become an Ushahidi expert.
What is Ushahidi?
Who invented it?
How does it work in a real crisis?
Now that you know all about Ushahidi, how do you think it could be used in YOUR part of the world?
Use your local insight to identify a crisis that your city, town or village might face in the future.
- What are the most likely natural disasters, food shortages, power outages, political crises, health outbreaks, or other social disruptions that YOU should be prepared to face with resilience? Pick one.
- What different kinds of data would you track in the crisis?
- What different kinds of urgent information and resources would you need to collect and share?
Your objective:
Identify a crisis you might face locally in the future — and then describe in a blog post, video or photo essay what different kinds of data you would track and which urgent information and resources the Ushahidi platform could help you share.This objective is worth +15 local insight.
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Comment by Kevin Herzog on April 20, 2014 at 9:24pm
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Hurricanes can be devistating. Each year Florida is faced with some kind of major hurricane and it just flat out destroys our state. It can leave people without food, water, power and much more. It can even lead to death. With the Ushahidi tool, we can track these hurricanes at early stages and prepare the best we can. It will tell us how severe it will be and what we need to expect.
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One crisis Floridians face is hurricanes. Hurricanes can be very powerful and can leave people without the necessary resources they need to survive, like food and water. With the Ushahidi tool data about the storm can be tracked to provide Floridians with accurate information about the hurricane. Some information that could be provided is where the hurricane is located, how strong of a storm it is, the predicted duration of the storm, and what other advisories are in effect, like flood or tornado warnings.
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electronically! plus a set up calling list for neighborhoods for those without internet
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I live in a coastal area that's often plagued by hurricanes. This would be very helpful, should a superstorm ever hit. You could track sickness levels and medicinal/supply needs. LEARN7
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We could use Ushahibidi to bring attention to ware it is needed.
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on the Ushahidi program
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I am conserned about air pollution in Georgia. We barley ever use any means of transportation other than cars. We can create a Carpool Campaign to help stop air pollution
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In the future, the Chattahoochee River might become too polluted to filter,which would be really bad for Atlanta. We could use Ushahidi, however, to broadcast information about this to the public.
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In the future, we will come face to face with extreme fresh water shortage. We can broadcast the information electronically to all countries involved.
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Comment by Brittany Pearson on December 4, 2012 at 10:07pm
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In the future, there will be lack of water, famine, disease and pollution, we are really going to need Ushahidi then.
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In th future we will face lack of water. We will then save the last water we have a make more of it and save it.
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Comment by Ellie Addington on November 29, 2012 at 11:04pm
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In the future we might face major water pollution. We would have to purify it and send a lot of money on that.
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In the future every can be aware of the events going on if they have acess to a smartphone which in the future lots of people will
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Over the next few years water reasources will dplete and we will need an fast solution.
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In the future diseases will spread throught many countries. we would need to create a cure or follow the spread. Ushaidi can help us on that.
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In the future we may face serious affects of pollution in the U.S. Ushahidi could help clean up the mess we made to start over.
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Comment by Hannah Rose Fountain on November 27, 2012 at 1:07am
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There is a danger here in the US of a super volcano, and if we use Ushahidi, then we could get help and evacuate people who needed to be evacuated, which would save millions of lives.
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Comment by Zeba Huque on November 27, 2012 at 12:20am
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In the future, we might face the affects of Global Warming.
can help get a TV or radio broadcast to aware the people what is going on and how to protect ourselves.
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Comment by Kennedy Suttle on November 26, 2012 at 11:45pm
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If a major crisis was to occur unexpected, then we could contact people to fix or create a solution. Which would be helpful to use email, facebook, twitter, computers, or instagram.
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