Haiti Map Phone Report 
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Examples from Haiti. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!
NTEN
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Fundraising.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 20, 2010
For a more details about the SMS fundraising results, see this this detailed report on the SMS fundraising campaign from MobileActive and yesterday's article in the New York Times from Stephanie Strom. Here you will find opportunities to donate your tech skills to Haiti. The goal is to help desperate families find their loved ones.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 28, 2011
If decision makers simply had a map, they could have made better decisions more quickly, more accurately, and with less complication than if they had tried to use crowdsourcing. The correlation found in Haiti is an example of a "confounding factor". While this claim is technically correct, it misses the point.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 9, 2011
The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. At the time of the Haiti earthquake, very few people in the country were using Twitter, but it was enough to get news of needs out to the world. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.
Tech Soup
MARCH 29, 2017
Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor.
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