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Crowdsourcing Crisis Information in Disaster-Affected Haiti

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March 31, 2015

This report was commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding and Haiti Working Group. It examines the role of Ushahidi, a crisis-mapping platform, in the disaster relief effort following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Ushahidi provided the international community with access to actionable intelligence collected directly from the Haitian population via text messages and through social media sources, allowing responders to quickly and effectively target resources in the rapidly changing disaster environment.

© United States Institute of Peace, 2010

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Early Warning Systems, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology

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