Paul Hyman
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Ushahidi---or "testimony" in Swahili---has played a central role in coordinating responses to crises around the globe.
- Rahul Chandran and Andrew Thow "Humanitarianism in the Network Age," 2013, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/ Documents/WEB%20Humanitarianism%20 in%20the%20Network%20Age%20vF%20single.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Francesco Mancini (ed.) "New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict," April 25, 2013, the International Peace Institute, http://www.ipinst.org/media/pdf/publications/ipi_epub_ new_technology_final.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Heather Leson (ed.) "Uchaguzi - Kenyan Elections 2013," April 24, 2013, Ushahidi, https://wiki. ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Uchaguzi+- +Kenyan+Elections+2013Google Scholar
- "Mapping Syria," a video posted July 16, 2013 by Ushahidi, at http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=NRG0PqYisZ8Google Scholar
- Jessica Heinzelman and Carol Waters "Crowdsourcing Crisis Information in Disaster-Affected Haiti," September 29, 2010, the United States Institute of Peace's Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/ SR252%20-%20Crowdsourcing%20 Crisis%20Information%20in%20Disaster- Affected%20Haiti.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Jessica Heinzelman, D. Roz Sewell, Jen Ziemke, and Patrick Meier "Lessons from Haiti and Beyond: Report from the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping," March 7, 2011, the United States institute of Peace, http://www.usip. org/sites/default/files/PB83.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Jakob Rogstadius "Introduction to CrisisTracker," July 7, 2012, http://vimeo.com/45366518Google Scholar
Index Terms
- 'Peace technologies' enable eyewitness reporting when disasters strike
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