In the weekly: We've got upcoming events for Ushahidi Developers and Crowdmap users. Data is on our mind, so tune into our Data Ethics in Research conversation. And, we've got Topic of the Week for new Crowdmap and our Deployment of the Week from Iran.
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I've been riveted by all the events in Turkey. My thoughts are with citizens and activists. There have been a few questions to our community about who is mapping. Protest and conflict mapping is very hard and complex, please be safe. See Security in a Box. Here are a few examples of projects related to OccupyGezi:
Crowdmap "classic": There are two active mapping projects: Istanbul Violence and Global Gezi.
New Crowdmap - Search Istanbul, OccupyGezi and Turkey for posts.
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Previous Deployment of the Week winner, Aztecast, an application that allows the SDSU community to view, post and share events happening on and around San Diego State University, has new mobile apps in Android and ios.
Crowdmap: Topic of the Week
With new Crowdmap, You can now send an email and have that post to your map directly. The "Topic of the Week" is to add a Joke to new Crowdmap. You can tag with #TOW (Topic of the Week)How to
Send an email to jokes@in.crowdmap.com will put up a post on https://crowdmap.com/map/jokes/Example Post
Add on your map
You can test this out on your own individual maps by sending an email to [map_name]@in.crowdmap.com.Events
Crowdmap User Forum - Get a Demo, Ask Questions, Give Feedback. Our next hangout is June 18, 2013 at 09:00 EDT/ 17:00 EAT Getting Involved in Ushahidi needs a reboot. Join us for our community developer call to share your input. June 17 at 21:00 EDT.Data, Data, Data
Ushahidians work with data every day. Today we hosted a chat with our friends at the engine room and ihub Research about some of the ethical considerations that data researchers need to consider.Summary:
Christopher Wilson, the engine room, rightfully pointed out that this discussion could lead into many sessions. Simply put, there is a myriad of critical topics. In our discussion of Internal Review Boards (IRB), we considered how each runs differently and don't have real-time standards. As Jennifer Chan of Harvard Humanitarian Initiative pointed out: "the IRB cycles might not match the ever-changing real-time flow." There is no one source to get the data standards, guidelines and research ethics for best practices in development. Anahi Ayala Iaccuci, Internews and Standby Task Force, and others are creating a Tech Salon series on this Ethics in Development. This will provide a resource for the wider community. Anahi advised that:"it is shocking that in the digital space - organizations don't understand. Sometimes folks just give up. It is hard to incorporate all the data ethics standards and keep up with the technology and ethics."Ihub Research will be releasing their Umati report next week. We look forward to sharing this important research into monitoring dangerous speech.
Intro - Data Ethics in Research:
Dr. Collette Mazzucelli, Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for Global Affairs @ NYU, was presenting today at Montreal Institute of Genocide and Human Rights - Concordia University: https://twitter.com/MIGSinstitute/status/344871180471242754Iran Voices: Deployment of the Week
Iran Voices and echoes collected news and reports from different cities of Iran are less media attention has been created. We recognize their difficult work as Deployment of the Week. Hat tip to Global Voices for helping amplify this project.
Previous Deployment of the Week winner, Aztecast, an application that allows the SDSU community to view, post and share events happening on and around San Diego State University, has new mobile apps in Android and ios.