Workshop how to use Crowdmap.com crisis mapping platform.

Leadership 2.0 in the crowd-sourced information era

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STARTHow to solve a social problem

using technology?

END Crowdsourcing the problem

with the crowdmap.

Goal of the workshop?

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Crowdsourcing

1. Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.

2. The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

Definition:

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Wikipedia

written collaboratively by volunteers around

the world

Collaborative knowledge for everyone.

18 million articles

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Flood – helping in real time in Poland. WWW: alert.powodz.ngo.pl

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Monitoring elections in Belarus. WWW: electby.org

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1. Person that has (a category of) information – reports- flood, needs help –– what kind of help?- sees violation of elections – what kind of?

2. Person who can use information – gets alerts- can deliver food, clean water;- is a journalist, can make the information public.

How Crowdmap.com works?

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People who need help

report

Solving the social problem.

People who can help get

alerts

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Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com - 1. sign up

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Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com - 2. alerts

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Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com - 3. reports

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Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com - 4. verify the report

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If you can see the report on the front page, you know how to crowdsource social problems.

Tutorial – www.crowdmap.com - 5. see report on the front page

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Tools• Crowdmap.com – 1. Collect information from cell phones, news and the web. 2.

Aggregate that information into a single platform. 3. Visualize it on a map and timeline.• Ushahidi.com - A non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software

for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.• Ushahidi video tutorials, YouTube channel.

Social startups; civic media projects:• Presentations from SocialCamps (Polish);• Center for Future Civic Media - projects, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;• NetSquared - projects browser.

Reading, news:• Civic hacking: a new agenda for e-democracy, James Crabtree, openDemocracy.net, 12

June 2007;• The Rise of Crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe, Wired, Issue 14.06 - June 2006;• Patrick Meier's blog - Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi;• Ushahidi's blog,• Open-source software - Wikipedia definition.

Links – more information

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