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  • Can Ushahidi Rely on Crowdsourced Verifications?

    First published on PBS Idea Lab During the aftermath of the Chilean earthquake last year, the Ushahidi-Chile team received two reports — one through the platform, the other via Twitter — that indicated an…

  • Why the muggle doesn’t like the term “bounded crowdsourcing”

    Patrick Meier just wrote a post explaining why the term he coined, “bounded crowdsourcing” is ‘important for crisis mapping and beyond’. He likens “bounded crowdsourcing” to “snowball sampling”, where a few trusted individuals invite…

  • What is the next step for Ushahidi verification?

    Cross-posted from blog.ushahidi.com As Ushahidi ethnographer, my job is to do on-the-ground research on users’ experience with our technology in particular contexts. Something that we’ve been thinking about a great deal as we develop…

  • Wikipedia Isn’t Journalism, But Are Wikipedians Reluctant Journalists?

    Cross-posted from PBS Idea Lab Wikipedia articles on breaking news stories dominate page views on the world’s sixth-largest website. Perhaps more importantly, these articles drive the most significant editor contribution — especially among new…

  • New geographies

    Cross-posted from Ethnography Matters xkcd’s Updated Map of Online Communities I arrived in Nairobi last night after an absence of about five years. As I left the plane through the walkway, I took a…

  • Introducing Ethnography Matters

    This post introduces the new group blog I’m working on called Ethnography Matters On the first of June this year, I became an ethnographer – but probably only an ethnographer in the sense that…

  • Why Wikipedia articles are deleted

    Stuart Geiger and I just presented some research at WikiSym on why Wikipedia articles are deleted through both the speedy deletion or “CSD” process, a unilateral process whereby administrators can deleted problematic articles without…

  • What should be remembered?

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the disputes around Ushahidi’s role in humanitarian efforts and came round to thinking that we may be looking in the wrong place to discover the work that tools…

  • Wikipedia narratives

    I’ve been spending the last few days thinking about my upcoming research into how Wikipedians currently use and understand sources and citations in different situations (directly after a major international news event like the…

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