On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Victor Ngeny
<victormaritim@gmail.com> wrote:
@Aki
Thing is with good verification guidelines, it wont matter where the report comes from.
@Victor, it definately does matter where the report comes from. For example, if you look at the tweeter map for war torn city of Misrata in libya, not a single tweet is local as obviously there in no power, food etc let alone any internet access. All the tweets for Misrata come in from the UK, USA. Now if anyone was using Ushaidi, how can they map external data to a local location and also verify the data to be accurate?
One thing that makes me very proud of the Ushahidi Haiti deployment is that NGOs and Humanitarian agencies used the info/map to direct their relief process.
Was Ushaidi deployed on the ground and its data generated from local contacts? Using Haiti as an example, would you kindly write more on how the data flowed between a person stuck in a collapsed building to the data being sent to the Ushaidi people?
That said, I totally concur with you that validation is something the Ushahidi team should look more into...
V
Agreed 100% . :-)