Facilitating Change » mashup http://www.facilitatingchange.org one butterfly flapping its wings Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:10:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Freebase: Open code for open data http://www.facilitatingchange.org/2009/07/freebase-open-code-for-open-data/ http://www.facilitatingchange.org/2009/07/freebase-open-code-for-open-data/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:02:25 +0000 Christine http://www.facilitatingchange.org/?p=762 Introducing Freebase: “the easiest way to add free, community-curated, Creative Commons licensed content to your web applications.” Watch the video. Imagine the possibilities.

Via Karl.

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Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili) is an experimental web platform that crowdsources crisis information. People can submit reports via text messaging using a mobile phone, email, or the web. Looks like it can be deployed (sorry, geek speak) for a specific crisis. It was most recently use to track events in Gaza and was also used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Users can submit or track by category: riot, looting, sexual assault… (reads like humanity’s list of shame). The results are aggregated onto a map. They can also upload photos and post links to videos and news stories.

The project is free and open source, with developers from Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Malawi, Netherlands, and the United States. If you’re a developer and would like to participate you can join here.

And on top of everything, the design of their site rocks ;)

Related: Blogging for Good Governance

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