I interviewed Patrick Meier on Ushahidi and crisis mapping for netzpolitik.org. Patrick is a fellow member of DigiActive and serves on Ushahidi’s board of directors:
Simon Columbus: [...] So what is Ushahidi?
Patrick Meier: Ushahidi is a free and open source platform that allows organizations to crowdsource information and to visualize this information dynamically on a map.
Simon [...]
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Interview with Patrick Meier on Ushahidi and crisis mapping
BerlinInOctober e-democracy summit
On October 15 and 16 I attended an un-conference called BerlinInOctober, organized by politik-digital.de, e-demokratie.org and mySociety. For the third time, people from several international e-democracy projects met in Berlin to exchange experiences and collect inspirations for new services.
That’s why a big share of time was reserved for presentations for individual projects. Many portals are [...]
