Category: Geospatial

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Search: mapping community values

Analysis, Augmented Reality, Geospatial, InfoOps (IO), IO Mapping, Maps, Policy, Reform, Searches, Tools

Here is what comes up on Phi Beta Iota, followed by additional “human in the loop” suggestions.

Review : Global Shift–How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity

Here is what you were probably looking for:

Mapping community values for natural capital and ecosystem services

A couple more links we like (remember, US still does not have 1:50,000 charts for 90% of the world):

Mapping Communities:  Ethics, Values, Practice (PDF,  2005)
Understanding Your Audience and Your Community – Mapping Software that Reveals Key Characteristics (HTML, 2008)
Good practices in participatory mapping (PDF, 2009)
Community-mapping projects for sustainability (HTML, 2009)
Community Asset Mapping (HTML, 2010)

Amazon Links:

Value-Stream Mapping Books (focus on business process value mapping)

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Worth a Look: CrowdMap (Beta)

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Citizen-Centered, Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Earth Intelligence, Geospatial, Historic Contributions, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), International Aid, IO Mapping, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Maps, Methods & Process, microfinancing, Mobile, Officers Call, Open Government, Policy, Reform, Research resources, Technologies, Tools, Worth A Look

Crowdmap (Liquida)

Crowdmap allows you to…

+ Collect information from cell phones, news and the web.
+ Aggregate that information into a single platform.
+ Visualize it on a map and timeline.

Crowdmap is designed and built by the people behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information. As the platform has evolved, so have its uses. Crowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi without having to install it on your own web server.

See Also:

Graphics: Twitter as an Intelligence Tool

Reference: How to Use Twitter to Build Intelligence

Journal: Tech ‘has changed foreign policy’

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Project Masiluleke: The Mobile Phone as Life-Saving Device Against HIV/AIDS in South Africa

01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 07 Health, Geospatial, Mobile, Technologies

Project Masiluleke is a South African project that aims to find solutions for the country's growing AIDS pandemic. The project is unique in that it enjoys the collaboration of a group of leading South African and international partners in the clinical, technical, philanthropic, development and design arena's. The project was unveiled globally at the annual Pop!Tech Conference in Camden, USA in October 2008 and will be officially launched in South Africa in 2009.

Intended Impact

In a country where less than 5% of the adult population knows their HIV-status and more than 24% is HIV positive (close to 40% in provinces like Kwazulu Natal), Project Masiluleke has the potential to:

  • Bring large numbers of people into testing without spending millions on expensive and often unsuccessful awareness campaigns,
  • Empower people to know their HIV status by testing privately and accurate for the disease, in the privacy of their own homes,
  • Involve adherent ARV patients as role-models and mobile support agents, through the virtual call centres,
  • Keep patients on treatment and increase treatment effectiveness, through regular doctor's visits and clinical support.

Project brief (pdf)

Other links on the same project:

Video of the project

http://www.frogdesign.com/services/project-masiluleke.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/projects/project-m.html

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Global Infectious Disease Alert Map

02 Infectious Disease, 07 Health, Geospatial, Technologies

HealthMap.org

Public website bringing together disparate data sources to achieve a unified view of the current global state of infectious diseases.

Comment: Idea = add mobile alerts based on location, making the alerts more relevant to those closer to the outbreaks.

Related:
+ Biosurveillance (and the twitter feed)
+ Praecipio International | An Institute for Warning Analysis

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Pakistan Medical Resource Finder, Millions at Risk of Fatal Diseases

02 Infectious Disease, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, Geospatial, International Aid, Technologies

http://pakistan.resource-finder.appspot.com

This is a good idea/resource that needs a great deal of additional information and mobile SMS access.

Thanks to those posting at the Ushahidi Twitter feed

Related:
+ Epidemic advisory situation report
+ Crisis Commons Wiki on Pakistan Floods
+ Sahana Foundation Flood Response Resources
+ Pakreport.org
+ Crisis mappers
+ Praecipio International | An Institute for Warning Analysis
+ Biosurveillance (and the twitter feed)
+ 3.5 million Pakistan kids at risk of fatal diseases
+ Map of Pakistan flooding
+ Mismanagement of rivers, farms contributed to large flooding
+ UN Pakistan Floods Emergency Response Plan August 2010

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Earth Intelligence Network Twitter Feed Links (that were not listed here)

02 Infectious Disease, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 07 Health, 10 Transnational Crime, Geospatial, Mobile, Technologies, Videos/Movies/Documentaries, Waste (materials, food, etc)
@earthintelnet Twitter feed

Below are interesting links/stories from our Twitter feed that were not posted to Phi Beta Iota due to time constraints, etc:

  1. ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order
  2. America discards 40% of the food it makes (2% composted) while a billion go hungry
  3. Afghan War Interactive Timeline
  4. Scientists developing cancer breath test
  5. (video) Crime on the Southwest Border: The FBI partners with Mexican law enforcement and many federal, state, and local
  6. Mapping Haitian History: An interactive map of Haiti
  7. Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center Overview
  8. President Obama signs into law ban on cell phones in federal prisons
  9. Latest from Russia: Russian-Fires.ru, the First Ushahidi Experience
  10. Ramadan goes hi-tech with phone apps to remind the devout to pray
  11. Social Networks Can Warn of Disease After Disasters
  12. How Freedom Fone Helped Create Participatory Radio in Africa
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Twitter & SMS Used to Help Election in Kenya

07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Geospatial, Mobile, Peace Intelligence, Technologies
source article

How Twitter saved Kenya's election

Thu Aug 5, 2010

New York – Once again, social media has played a central role in a national election. During Kenya's recent ballot initiative to adopt a new constitution, citizens used Twitter, along with Facebook and a new breed of monitoring technology, to help eliminate the voter intimidation, bombings, and deadly violence that marred the struggling African country's disastrous 2008 election. Here, a quick guide:

How was social media used to monitor the election?
Voters reported any intimidation issues at the polls by posting Twitter messages with the hashtag #uchaguzi (the Kiswahili word for “election”), or sending SMS messages to a specially designated number. A group of volunteers tracked the messages and alerted local officials when necessary.

Besides Twitter, what other technologies were used?
A Kenyan-developed platform called Uchaguzi helped aggregate all reported problems, documenting incidents by location and type (security issues, hate speech, ballot issues) so that anyone with Internet access could get a quick overview on the Uchaguzi site. It's very new for Kenyans, Uchaguzi's Charles Kithika tells The Christian Science Monitor, to see that problems are being reported and investigated, effectively “discouraging” troublemakers.

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