Slides from a hands-on "get your Ushahidi platform up, running and doing cool stuff" class at SIPA

3. We Build Community Data Tools

4. Ushahidi
Platforms

5. Ushahidi PlatformV2

6. Ushahidi PlatformV2

7. It’s Been Used a Lot
40,921 Deployments
49,206 Mobile Downloads

8. Sudden-Onset Crisis
March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 views!
Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
January 2010 - 3,584 reports, 500,000 views!
Allowed Haitians to report location and needs
sinsai.info/ushahidi haiti.ushahidi.com

9. Security and Ebola

10. Worldwide Food Prices

11. Back-end Tour

12. New Crowdmap = stories

13. Ushahidi PlatformV3 = more good stuff

14. eg. PlatformV3 = more visualisations

15. Practical

16. Before you touch the tech, you need to
think about…
• Why you’re crowdsourcing
• Which effects you want to create
• Who your sources are
• What your input channels are
• Privacy and Security
• Who is going to man your deployment
• Basic site details

17. Basic Site Details
• Web address
• Title
• Subtitle
• Geographical area
• Categories list
• About page contents
• Contact details (e.g. email address)

18. Basic Site
Setup

19. Go to crowdmap.com

20. Sign up

21. Sign up

22. Go to your new map

23. Meet your Admin Panel

24. Set up the Map

25. Set up the Categories list

26. Create an About page

27. You’ve now got a site…test it!

28. Adding A Report

29. Why Aren’t my ReportsVisible?

30. Ta-da!

31. More

32. Languages

33. Custom Forms

34. CSV Inputs/Outputs

35. Twitter Feed

36. Twitter Messages

37. Twitter “Create a Report”

38. Plugins

39. SMS feeds

40. Map Layers

41. Where to go from here
Ushahidi Platform help and advice:
• https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Ushahidi+Platform+v2.x
• Ushahidi IRC group
• www.ushahidi.com
!
Creating a non-hosted site:
• https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web

43. ping.Ushahidi.com
(accessible via mobile or desktop)
Send Message:
“are you ok?”
as a text message & email
1
2
1
2
family or team member
Next contact (spouse, roommate, friend)
A group Check-in Tool for Emergencies

44. Connecting
people
to eduction, social, and
communications
Connecting
sensors
and information to responders,
technicians, and analyst
Two roles, One BRCK
*photo credit Charity Water