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
