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Ushahidi Community at ICT4D (March 14, 2012, Atlanta, GA)

Engy: Give us a Wordpress or Drupal or joomla plugin
Linda: El Salvador - offering Spanish tech support from the el Salvador team. Very frustrating to only get tech in English

  • Embedding a map in a blog post is great
  • But others want. A more functional website integrate all the pieces around
  • Search is not useful
  • Better aggregation by type and location
    Data layers on topics and complimentary topics

Show and tell examples:

How to handle Mapless areas:

  • Lack of detailed maps in any country -no streets
  • Need matchmaking with osm -need help in some areas
  • What are shareable with esri? 
  • Train the trainers-have osm do their stuff and connected to global community
  • They work with 400 communities in el Salvador
  • Start with 3-4 communities. People are cross trained
  • Anahi- youth engagement
  • *A Map of places that need to be mapped* -the ask

Linda

  • maybe owned by communities and youth
  • Mozambique and osm was hard because youth did not have conceptualization or knowledge on how to do computer work. What is a map?
  • osm is hard to use; need an interface to help change the map 
  • kids have trouble using a computer
  • amateurization of mapping, needs to evolve like video

Engy

  • Harassmap requests to do
  • bangaladesh, brazil, India. Turkey, yemen and Palestinian
  • created google group to connect
  • decided to not use just one map, mentor others
  • mentor and grass
  • created FAQ for anyone
  • great outreach
  • open discussion in the streets take it off line
  • youth took ownership of their streets

Joshua

  • Ushahidi needs an Incident manager system
  • Annotate or content managements to close feedback loop
  • orgs could take an incident and be able to tack it to their own IMs
  • like salesforce for contacts
  • workflow mgmt
  • allow partner orgs to see the status of incidents
  • Domestic violence: curator can attribute follow up actions can go to other dept
  • might be open 311 code reversed
  • verify auth and push to workflow

Jessica

  • remove verified, approved and not verified
  • allow the user to decide the terms
  • how about received instead
  • mentioned option to change report or incident
  • access requested to Heather Ford 's research
  • Linda: 8 hours to try to explain verify and approved reports

Jessica

  • Github Issues is not useful for feedback for most of the community
  • Want a like button of importance of issues that reflects the needs
  • Never get any feedback on my feedback
  • Never hear why it is not prioritizing and no transparency into it
  • See the internal Ushahidi to see what users want and ratings
  • Use feedback plus comments but can't change it
  • Rate it and wish explanations of the status
  • Worked on by a volunteer
  • Hear what others thought about it
  • And understand why not actioned
  • Curated
  • Essence and posted with annotations
  • Submit or new issue or bundled with
  • So it doesn't become unruly

Linda

  • More community support from other organizations
  • Not clear how to get things done
  • Forums are not visual, not always responsive
  • We are not communicating the refer workflow
  • Not sharing the cycle
  • So I email 8 people
  • Streamline it

John e.

  • Update docs to make it clear. Some companies provide highly secure software. Make it clear the scope of the security and set expectations better.
  • State that there may be bugs because we are open source
  • Cite Limitations working to improve

Actions:

  • Created Feedback project page
  • Potential community project with OSM to connect needed mapped areas with deployers.
  • Advise core team of feature requests
  1. Updates:

    1. I think that ideas.occupy.net is a great option. I talked with the developers. Stay tuned for more on this.

    2. I spoke with a member of the HOT OSM board on connecting mappers in mapless areas. We have started the groundwork on how to proceed.

    3. Feature - Drupal or Word Press. One of our community members posted this Issue request ( https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/357#issuecomment-4645213)