After reading about Ushahidi and research a little about it I bacame very interested in all the possible ways it could be used for the study of lots of different phenomenons.
As far I can forsee here in Mexico violence will continue to spread, the fight among the organized crime, drug cartels and the army will spread around the major supply chain routes of the cartels, lately some University students and other civilians had been killed in this conflict and I think Ushahidi may have the power to prevent some of the tragedies.
For most people Ushahidi may appear to be something like twitter or facebook which are great, here Twitter is a great tool to inform people about the things the media did not report or the things our government do not want us to know, none the less this way of communication has the flaw of being able to distribute false information because it has no way to discriminate among the differnt reports; Here is where Ushahidi shines, it has a way to stadistically discriminate the likehood of a report to be true or to be just noise.
Ushahidi would allow the Schools to generate information that is feed for the students if any dangers or gun fights happen around, also the local goverment can follow this report and respond faster to conflicts that arose, it even has a journalistic adventage because it allows the media to have a more trusted surce of real time information.
So the information I will try to recollect is the events of violance so they can be avoided that can also be used to study for patterns that can led to better public policy about the security.
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