ushahidi, social media and political change in mena

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@PatrickMeier (Ushahidi/PhD)

“We use Facebook to schedule protests, Twitter to coordinate and

YouTube to tell the world.”

Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University

“Having a real-time map complete with satellite photos, of where everyone is at any one

moment is almost as good as having your own helicopter”

www.CrisisMappers.net

http://blog.StandbyTaskforce.com

700+ volunteers 70+ countries

Will the triangulated crisis map be regarded as the new first draft of history?

-Anand, NYT

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