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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 Nathaniel G Madden on April 29, 2013 at 11:56am -
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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Comment by Eric Connor Lieberman on December 14, 2012 at 3:10am
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Comment by Eric Connor Lieberman on December 14, 2012 at 3:10am
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We could use Ushahibidi to bring attention to ware it is needed.
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Comment by Mary Crawford Esslinger on December 7, 2012 at 2:31am
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on the Ushahidi program
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Comment by Mary Crawford Esslinger on December 7, 2012 at 2:30am
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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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Comment by Robert Breeser on December 6, 2012 at 11:52pm
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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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Comment by Olivia Koenig on December 6, 2012 at 2:13am
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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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Comment by Peter Thomas Duncan on November 30, 2012 at 3:12am
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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 -
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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Comment by Martha Wilber on November 29, 2012 at 10:48pm
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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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Comment by NaamaErez on November 29, 2012 at 10:33pm
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Over the next few years water reasources will dplete and we will need an fast solution.
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Comment by Joshua Bennafield on November 29, 2012 at 11:37am
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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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Comment by Sydney Koeneman on November 27, 2012 at 2:06am
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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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Comment by CeCe Street on November 26, 2012 at 11:16pm
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Eventually there will be an earthquake that is bigger than ever. Ushahidi will be there to help and we could never be happier.
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Comment by Caroline Thomson on November 26, 2012 at 10:48pm -
If a crisis is to occur then we could notify the people who have the ability or knowledge to fix it. It can be as easy as a phone call, text message, or email. It is that easy.
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Comment by Grant Reeder on November 26, 2012 at 9:09pm -
In the case of an underwater earthquake(over 8.5) several tsunamis would form and devour coastlines. We could use smartphones, computers, and even possibly a horseback alert to warn the countries that are in crisis area which would allow them more time to prepare for the disaster.
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