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The Ushhahidi application for smartphones will help collect data in offline mode
The crowdsourcing tool for creating Ushhahidi cards has released applications for mobile devices. IOS and Android users will have the opportunity to create new projects, monitor the development of existing ones, as well as add their data. The application allows you to add data even in offline mode (including video and photo)-all the information, including GPS coordinates, is saved and then sent when connected to the network.
The Ushhahidi project appeared in 2008 as a local technological solution to optimize the work of journalists and human rights activists in Kenya after the elections. However, then the project began to develop actively, turning into a global crowdsourcing platform on the open code. With the help of ushahidi, many socially significant projects were implemented in different countries, for example, a “Help card to suffered from fires” in Russia.
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Ushahidi allows you to immediately solve a whole range of problems: data collection, situation monitoring, visualization, reaction to events. In the web version of this crowdsing tool for feedback from users, SMS messages were used, as well as adding points to Google maps on the project website.
Thanks to the USHAHIDI capabilities applied, they have expanded significantly. Now activists will be able to create their own polls, load data from third parties (including SMS messages and tweets), share their cards or timline, as well as coordinate the actions of the team using a smartphone.
The application should help active users of the platform use it even more efficiently. Now organizations will be able to involve communities in the collection of data or quickly collect information in case of emergency situations.