Deployment of the Week
This week, we recognise two deployments for their outstanding work and efforts.
Crisis scape embark on a mission to
trace and research cases of migrant attacks in Athens.
We could all use more compassion and humility.
Jon Ramer and the Compassion Games Team have been learning, planning and mapping to launch their Deployment of the Week:
More Details:
Nobody loses the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest; and everybody wins the more people play. Everyday, wherever we are, we can act with kindness and thoughtfulness. To energize and amplify this idea we have organized an annual "Global Coopetition" from September 11th through September 21st to challenge each other to promote compassionate action.
A
"coopetition" is when community members compete with and not against each other to bring out their very best while striving to make their community more compassionate.
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Meanwhile in Guinea, Aboudcar has been busy preparing map projects for the upcoming elections:
Rose Guniee and
Alliance Guinea. The elections are at the end of September. Good luck!
In the news
Our minds are on Syria. Syria Tracker is recognized in this
Guide to Citizen journalists feeding us news on Syria.
Ushahidi, ihub and Brck get mention
in this article.
Learn how Ushahidi is being used in Cambodia to
tackle violence against girls and women in Cambodia.
An interview about Ushahidi and building community.
Latest in research
Andrej Verity shared a
map of Humanitarian Decision-makers as well as an
Impact Evaluation Framework.
And, over at Qatar Foundation, they've created a
Humanitarian Computing Research library for all to share and remix.
Coming soon
Have you bought your ticket to Mozfest yet? We've pitched a
session on Triggering the Map API. Can you help us by voting?
https://twitter.com/thornet/status/374865703699873794
Our friends at TechChange will be doing a course including How to Ushahidi.
See their site for more details.
https://twitter.com/TechChange/status/374925211629805568
Into the Code
Ushahidi Core
Did you hear about the release of v2.7.1 of the platform?
Read about it here. We're encouraging all of you on older versions to upgrade to this latest stable build of the platform. As always, be sure to send in any bug reports to us via
github issues as we look into the next bug release in the coming months.
Keep Calm… Upgrade days are coming!
We're looking into organising upgrade day on the
25th & 26th of September,2013. Stay tuned for updates in the coming week about the schedule.
We've got a group of folks looking into
building Ushahidi on CouchDB. Are you interested? Feel free to get in touch with us and we will link you up with these folks.
Crowdmap
The API is now open for you to play around with it :). Have a look at the
API docs to guide you!
We could all use more compassion and humility. Jon Ramer and the Compassion Games Team have been learning, planning and mapping to launch their Deployment of the Week:
More Details:
Nobody loses the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest; and everybody wins the more people play. Everyday, wherever we are, we can act with kindness and thoughtfulness. To energize and amplify this idea we have organized an annual "Global Coopetition" from September 11th through September 21st to challenge each other to promote compassionate action.
A "coopetition" is when community members compete with and not against each other to bring out their very best while striving to make their community more compassionate.
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Meanwhile in Guinea, Aboudcar has been busy preparing map projects for the upcoming elections: Rose Guniee and Alliance Guinea. The elections are at the end of September. Good luck!