As the co-founder of a software platform called Ushahidi, Ory Orykolloh watches the unfolding catastrophic earthquake catastrophe in Haiti and must determine how the crisis of her company's -mapping applications might guide international authorities as they shift into Haiti to give assistance and relief.
Ushahidi was developed as an open-sourced mash up place converging Google Maps with publicized reports of occurrences of disputes and violence in Kenyan 2007 elections, thus the system efficiently managed to overcome government censorship.
Expanding in other uses during political enigma plus a variety of national/international events provided opportunities for increase. Currently, with, Haiti, management team of Ushahidi must consider how its applications could be utilized to supply assistance during a disaster like an earthquake.
PUBLICATION DATE: March 03, 2015 PRODUCT #: W14699-HCB-ENG
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