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Citizen Patrol

Challenges Entered: 
the urban poor people reporting demolition, hunger and poverty and human rights in the Philippines

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Locations

Akap Bata Philippines office (c/o Caritas Manila)
Jesus St., Pandacan
Manila
Philippines
Tudla Productions office
1938 UP Bliss Diliman
Quezon City 1101
Philippines
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Manila

Mosomo-health: fighting corruption in local health projects by empowering citizens as mobile social monitors

Challenges Entered: 
Mosomo-health brings social monitoring via mobile phones to local development projects in the health sector where corruption siphons off up to a third of project money and often leads to dysfunctional health facilities that undermine local development. Mosomo-health’s  most innovative feature will be a mobile information hub linked to a database with geo-coded information on local health facilities. The information hub will use mobile narrowcasting to distribute targeted project information to social monitors for effective tracking of local health projects.

YourMediaWorld

Challenges Entered: 
Media literacy tools Calendars Media Ownership (history, policy, effects, $$$) Washington D.C. Policy change efforts (issues legislation, representatives' contact info) Media Justice, Reform, Democracy sector activities Cross sector activities Local, regional, national, international media/communication rights activity More robust organizational information for partnerships and collaborations.

Ushahidi: Mapping Reports of Post-Election Violence in Kenya

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!

 

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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.

Location

Nairobi
Kenya
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Nairobi

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