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Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories

Challenges Entered:

FACT Social Justice Challenge (2010)

Looking to the past to map out a better future

This project uses work that I am doing with yout as well as my own personal reflections on and creations of community history to create multi-media representations of history both online and offline.

Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories is a collection of stories, a preservation of lives and a reconstruction of histories. Untold stories posses the power to analyze, restructure, and overthrow systems that hold us captive. Communities must unite around stories of common history to seek the roots of oppression and fight the systems that hide those stories in the first place. Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories is a multi-media exploration of his-story, her-story, my-story and your-story.

Locations

Mishkan Shalom Synagogue Philadelphia, PA

United States

See map: Google Maps

Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002

United States

42° 22' 39.5436" N, 72° 30' 11.628" W

See map: Google Maps

Project Locations

Project Location:

Philadelphia, PA

Submitted by helyxChase on September 20, 2010 - 8:25am

Ushahidi: Mapping Reports of Post-Election Violence in Kenya

N2Y3: Mashup (2008)

N2Y3: Mashup (2008)

Challenges Entered:

Ushahidi consists of citizen-provided data - reports of violence from the ground in Kenya via mobile phones (SMS), email and the website form. We geocode this data using the Google Maps API.What we're looking to do is add additional functionality, including more specific points on the map of Kenya for each incident, meaning additional map overlays. We would also like to create a "heat map" that shows which areas are in deeper conflict at a specific time. Some thought has been given to marrying this idea up with the current timeline feature. Lastly, we would like to add a seperate data point, "news". This presents a great opportunity to link news stories with citizen reported violence, YouTube videos and Flickr images to give a wholistic viewpoint on any one report. Ideas surrounding how to handle duplication of content, better geocoding, map overlays and how to best integrate other APIs are greatly appreciated!

What else have you done in this area of work?

Ory Okolloh is the co-founder of www.mzalendo.com (a website that keeps an eye on the Kenyan Parliament). She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and is best known for her blog coverage of the Kenyan election and post-election fallout on KenyanPundit.com.

Erik Hersman is the founder of www.afrigadget.com, and WhiteAfrican.com, where he analyzes and talks about developments in the web and mobile space and how they affect Africa.