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There are several possible crises that could happen in Germany. To get an image of what could happen you can just look back a few years. There was the elbe flood. Something like Ushahidi would have been very usefull at this crises, because people were traped on their roof waiting for help, but the helping forces of course had to find them first. With Ushahidi the people that were looking for help could have easily postet their location online and it would have been a piece of cake to rescue them. Also we've had the swine flu in germany just a couple years ago. In a crises like this people could get informed about the latest spreads of the pandemic and where to get a vaccination.
Right now we're fancing a another financial crisis in europe:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/euro_crisis/
In a crisis like this people could use Ushahidi to report how the financial crisis of a country effect the simple people of this country. Politicans sometimes seem to forget about them and try to get themselfs in a good light during a crisis.
Those are all possible scenarios where something like Ushahidi can really help in the future. I'm really that this is an amazing project, because again it shows that new technology and media can help humanity not only in casual needs!
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