MapaDelitos, our featured deployers today, this #GivingTuesday are bold volunteers that have banded together to provide citizen-driven visibility into crime in their neighbourhoods.

Bike Scouts was launched in 2013 as an alternative means of access to communications and essential supplies for people and places isolated by Typhoon Yolanda - using bicycles and teams of Volunteer Bicycle Messengers. They have operated as a volunteer-driven platform for the past eight years with zero funding. The community has grown to 150,000+ volunteers composed of 45 local teams and 4,000 team leaders. Incorporating our Ushahidi platform, they launched a mobile app that now serves as the primary tool for its community’s disaster data collection, disaster documentation, and storytelling.

UPDATE FROM USHAHIDI TEAM

Due to technical circumstances, the earlier scheduled downtime on your deployment has been moved from Tuesday 25th September 2018, to Monday 1st October, 2018.

We apologise for the inconvenience and will be in touch with more information as the week goes by.

Thanks for your patience.

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Ushahidi will be conducting scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, 25th of September 2018, starting at 3pm UTC (see your timezone here) and running 4-6 hours. Deployments hosted by Ushahidi will be completely inaccessible to all users for the duration of this migration. We encourage you to pass this information along to any of your users/audiences who may not receive this communication.

We will be migrating all hosted Ushahidi deployments to a new software framework and new hosting provider that we hope will bring significant improvement to their efficiency and operations.

How does a person balance the concentration needs of being a software engineer with the demands of collaboration, especially when you’re working remotely? (Or to paraphrase a terrible manager: Are you working remotely or remotely working?)