We've been collecting an Ushahidi bibliography on the Community site for a few years. This new Research Resources page will allow us to co-create a bibliography. Be sure to acknowledge any copyrights and usage before adding attachments.
Research
| Capelo, Luis; Chang, Natalie; Verity, Andrej | Guidance for Collaborating with Volunteer & Technical Communities Digital Humanitarian Network Report (2012) |
| Balza, Oscar Rafael Schlenker | A Help or a Hindrance? The Role of Social Media in Natural Disaster Management Communication International Media Studies Master’s Programme Thesis Submission (2011), University of Applied Sciences, University of Bonn. |
| Banzato, A, et al | Social Networks and Information Systems to Handle Emergency and Reconstruction in Natural Disasters: The L'Aquila Earthquake Case Study Proceedings of ALPIS 2010) |
| Beltramin, Matteo | The use of social media within nonprofit platforms. Can they increase the speed and efficiency in the resolution of crises and emergencies than using traditional means? Masters Thesis ESCP Europe (2012) |
| Belyea, Ashley | Thinking Outside the Blog: Women’s Voices and a New Generation of Communications Technology Yale Journal of International Affairs, pp. 53-63, Winter 2011 |
| Bernholz, Lucy; Edward Skloot and Barry Varela | Disruptive Technology: Technology and the Future of the Social Sector Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society, November 2009 |
| Berselli, S | Crisis Mapping Community Social Media Information During and After Large-Scale Disasters in Victoria Bachelor of Science Project, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2012) |
| Blanchard, Heather; Chapman, Kate et. al. | Volunteer Technology Communities: Open Development World Bank and GFDRR Labs Report (2012) |
| Blom, Jan, et al | Fear and the City: Role of Mobile Services in Harnessing Safety and Security in Urban Use Contexts. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human factors in Computing Systems, 2010 |
| Bruce, Daniel | The Role of the Media in Conflict and Peace Building in Kenya InterNews Network, Kenya Country Office, April 2009 |
| Caron, Catherine | The Impact of Web 2.0 Tools on the Humanitarian Aid Industry: A Case Study of the Response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake MSc Dissertation - London School of Economics (2010) |
| Cavelty, Myriam Dunn and Giroux, Jennifer | Crisis Mapping: A Phenomenon and Tool in Emergencies Strategic Trend Analysis Report, ETH Zurich (November 2011) |
| Chamales, George and Baker, Rob | Securing Crisis Maps in Conflict Zones IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (2011) |
| Chan, Jennifer; Tully, Melissa | Ushahidi Kenya Evaluation: Uchauzi (Case Study) - Success, Challenges and New Ways Forward Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & Knight Foundation (2011) |
| Chan, Jennifer; Tully, Melissa | Ushahidi Kenya Evaluation: Unsung Peace Heros/Building Bridges (Case Study) Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & Knight Foundation (2011) |
| Chan, Jennifer; Tully, Melissa | Ushahidi Kenya Evaluation: Blog Series Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & Knight Foundation (2011) |
| Chan, Jennifer; Tully, Melissa | Ushahidi Toolbox - Assessment Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & Knight Foundation (2011) |
| Chan, Jennifer; Tully, Melissa | Ushahidi Toolbox - Implementation Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & Knight Foundation (2011) |
| Chan, Jennifer; Tully, Melissa | Ushahidi Toolbox - Real-time Evaluation Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & Knight Foundation (2011) |
| Chan, Jennifer; Tully, Melissa | Evaluation Review Kit: Ushahidi Kenya Ushahidi Evaluation Project with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & Knight Foundation (2011) |
| Chiloba, Ezra | Citizen Participation through new technological platforms: The promotion of accountability in Kenya's election process Technology and Citizen Participation in the Construction of Democracy, UNDP Mexico-IEPC Jalisco, 2011 |
| Coyle, Diane and Patrick Meier | New Technology in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks UN Foundation Report, 2009 |
| Diamond, Larry | Liberation Technology Journal of Democracy. Vol 21, Number 3, July 2010 |
| Donner, Jonathan | Framing M4D: The utility of continuity and the dual heritage of mobiles and development Microsoft Research India, 2010. EJISDC |
| Donner, Jonathan, et al | Reflections on MobileActive 2008 and the M4D Landscape 2008 |
| Eggers, William and Leary, John O | Creating Public Value by Unleashing the Power of Cross-Boundary Collaboration Report by Deloitte GovLab and Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation (2011) |
| Eggers, William; Baker, Laura et. al | Public sector, disrupted: How disruptive innnovation can help government achieve more for less Deloitte and A GovLab Study (2011) |
| Ekine, Sokari; Eagle, Nathan; Banks, Ken et. al | SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa Sokari Ekine . |
| Eronen, Oskari | Discourses on future contexts of crisis management Finnish Defence Forces International Centre - Fincent Publication Series (2012) |
| Fall, Kevin, et al | A Disruption-Tolerant Architecture for Secure and Efficient Disaster Response Communications Under review, 2010 |
| Fleischner, Justine, et al | Homebound Security: Migrant Support for Improved Public Safety in Conflict Prone Settings Report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies Post Conflict Reconstruction Project, December 2009 |
| Freifeld CC, Chunara R, Mekaru SR, Chan EH, Kass-Hout T, et al | Participatory Epidemiology: Use of Mobile Phones for Community-Based Health Reporting PLoS Med 7(12) 2010 |
| Fung, Archon; Gilman, Hollie Russon; Shkabatur, Jennifer | Six Models for the Internet + Politics Research supported by Technology and Accountability Initiative of the Open Society Foundation (2012) |
| Gedeon Achi, Fiona | Behind the map: crises and crisis collectives in high-tech actions Master of Arts Thesis, The University of Chicago (May 2012) |
| Gendron, Renee and Evan Hoffman | Resource Scarcity and the Prevention of Violent Conflicts The Peace and Conflict Review, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2009 |
| Goodman, Saymour and Harris, Andrew | The coming African tsunami of information insecurity Magazine Communications of the ACM CACM Homepage archive, Volume 53 Issue 12, December 2010 |
| Gosier, Jon | Queensland and the Ushahidi Ecosystem Ushahidi Blog, 2011 |
Grabowski, Maria | Hopeful Action: An anthropological take on Ushahidi, Digital Activism and Hope (Masters Thesis, March 2013) |
| Greengard, Samuel | Following the crowd Magazine: Communications of the ACM CACM Homepage archive, Volume 54, Issue 2, February 2011, ACM New York, USA |
| Greenough, P., et al | Applied Technologies in Humanitarian Assistance: Report of the 2009 Applied Technology Working Group Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , 2009 |
| Grimsrud, Sabrina | Improving geo-information through guided participation MSc Dissertation in Geographical Information Management and Application (2012) |
| Hagtun, Ida Norheim and Meier Patrick | Crowdsourcing for Crisis Mapping in Haiti Innovations/fall 2010, pp. 81-89 |
| Hanchard, Doug | Constructive Convergence: Imagery and Humanitarian Assistance Center for Technology and National Security Policy, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University (Feb 2012) |
| HarassMap Volunteers | HarassMap Brief: First Annual Report March 2012 March 2012 |
| HarassMap Volunteers | HarassMap Brief: First Annual Report March 2012 (Arabic Version) March 2012 |
| Harling, Nina Paulsen | More nimble, more human, more efficient - A case study of how the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement relates to alternative journalism in disaster and conflict operations 2012 Spring Semester Paper, Karlstad University, Sweden |
| HEAL, Apia, Samoa | NEOC Cyclone Simulation (December 3 & 15 - 2011) Report prepared for MNRE, Disaster Management Office, Apia, Samoa (April 2012) |
| Heinzelman, Jessica and Waters Carol | Special Report Crowdsourcing Crisis Information in Disaster Affected Haiti United States Institute of Peace, October 2010 |
| Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; Gonzalez, Jose J. | Assessing and Improving the Trustworthiness of Social Media for Emergency Management: A Literature Review Norwegian Information Security Conference, NISK(2012) |
| Hogge, Becky | Open Data Study Transparency and Accountability Initiative, May 2010 |
| Huder, Roger C | Disaster Operations and Decision Making Wiley Publishers (February 14, 2012) |
| Iacucci, Anahi Ayala | Citizens Journalism: Positive Evolution of Communication (Title in Spanish: Periodismo ciudadano. Evolución positiva de la comunicación) Book Chapter on Ushahidi (2011) |
| Jacobs, Andreas | Say it with murder: the Kenyan Post-Election-Violence 2007/2008 from the perspective of Nairobi’s slum-dwellers Final thesis in Political Science (Diplomarbeit), 2010 - Available on Request |
| Jain, Ramesh; Singh, Vivek and Gao Mingyan | Social Life Networks for Middle of the Pyramid University of California Irvine Journal (2011) |
| Johnson, Grady | Gaps in the Net: The Equity of Crowdsourced Reporting in Haiti December 2010 |
| Keay, Andra | Ushahidi and Crowdmap : micro- streaming as time-binding media 3PM Journal of Digital Research Publishing, Volume: 1 , Issue: 2 (2010) |
| Kumar, Rupesinghe (Ed) | Third Generation Early Warning Foundation for Coexistence: Sri Lanka, 2009 |
| Kumpel, Emily et. al | NextDrop: Using Human Observations to TrackWater Distribution Paper, University of California, Berkeley (2012) |
| Land, Molly | Peer Producing Human Rights Alberta Law Review, Vol. 46, No. 4, 2009 |
| Latonero, Mark et. al. | The Rise of Mobile and the Diffusion of Technology-Facilitated Trafficking USC Annenberg, Research Series on Technology and Human Trafficking (November 2012) |
| Lindroos, Saila | Facebook and Peace in Nairobi: A reception study of social media in post‐conflict Kenya University of Amsterdam (UvA), Graduate School for Social Science, Conflict Resolution and Governance Dissertation (2011) |
| Livingston, Steven; Walter-Drop, Gregor | Information and Communication Technologies in Areas of Limited Statehood SFB-Governance Working Paper Series, No. 38 (September 2012) |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | March 2013 iWitness Map Report |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | February 2013 iWitness Map Report |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | January 2013 iWitness Map Report |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | December 2012 iWitness Map Report |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | November 2012 iWitness Map Report |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | October 2012 iWitness Map Report |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | September 2012 iWitness Map Report |
| Louisiana Bucket Brigade | August 2012 iWitness Map Report |
| Mabee E. Warren, Fraser Evan D.G. and Slaymaker Olav | Evolving ecosystem management in the context of British Columbia resource planning Perspectives - BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management, Volume 4, Number 1, 2004 |
| Marsden, Janet | Stigmergic self-organization and the improvisation of Ushahidi School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, USA (June 2012) |
| Martin-Shields, Charles | Post-Ethnic Politics? Why do mobile phones have such a significant effect on conflict prevention, using the Kenyan case study? Working paper prepared for the OCIS V Conference, University of Sydney (July 2012) |
| McCormick, S. | After the Cap: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Disaster Recovery. Ecology and Society 17 (4): 31. George Washington University, 2012. |
| Meier, Patrick | Do “Liberation Technologies” Change the Balance of Power Between Repressive States and Civil Society? PhD Dissertation - The Fletcher School (2011) |
| Meier, Patrick | Crisis Mapping in Action: How Open Source Software and Global Volunteer Networks Are Changing the World, One Map at a Time Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2012 |
| Meier, Patrick and Jennifer Leaning | Applying Technology to Crisis Mapping and Early Warning in Humanitarian Settings Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Working Paper Series 2009 |
| Meier, Patrick Philippe | Verifying Crowdsourced Social Media Reports for Live Crisis Mapping: An Introduction to Information Forensics November 2011 |
| Meurn, Cathryn | The role of information communications technologies in violence prevention Institute of Medicine (2011) |
| Miard, Fabien | Mobile Phones as a Tool for Civil Resistance : Case studies from Serbia and Belarus DigiActive Research Series, June 2009 |
| Miller, Kirstin | Eco City Builders: Rio+20 Summary Report July 2012 |
| Monroy-Hernández, Andrés et. al. | The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare Microsoft Labs Research Paper (2013) |
| Mora, Fernando | Emergent digital activism: The generational/technological connection Proceedings of ILA 2011 |
| Mora, Fernando | Innovating in the midst of crisis: A case study of Ushahidi St George's University Working Paper (2011) |
| Morrow, Nathan; Mock, Nancy; Papendieck, Adam and Kocmich, Nicholas | Independent Evaluation of the Ushahidi Haiti Project DISI – Development Information Systems International, Ushahidi Haiti Project (2011) |
| Mueller, Philipp S. and Huellen, Sophie van | A Revolution in 140 Characters? Reflecting on the Role of Social Networking Technologies in the 2009 Iranian Post-Election Protests Policy & Internet (Dec 2012), Volume 4, Issue 3-4, pages 184–205 |
| Nagarajan, Meena; Sheth, Amit; and Velmurugan, Selvam | Citizen Sensor Data Mining, Social Media Analytics and Development Centric Web Applications - |
| Nelson Anne, Sigal Ivan and Zambrano Dean | Media Information Systems and Communities - Lessons from Haiti Report by CDAC, and John S and James L Knight Foundation (January 2011) |
| Nesbit, Josh and Janah, Leila Chirayath | Directing Relief Efforts and Creating Jobs through Text Messaging Innovations/fall 2010, pp. 69-72 |
| Nyheim, David | Preventing Violence, War and State Collapse: The Future of Conflict Early Warning and Response Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 2009 |
| Osborn, Duncan | eDemocs: Electronic Distributed Election Monitoring over Cellular Systems Fifth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2010 |
| OSCE | Gender and Early Warning Systems: An Introduction Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 2009 |
| Pham, Phuong N.; Vinck, Patrick | Technology, Conflict Early Warning Systems, Public Health, and Human Rights Health and Human Rights (December 2012), Volume 14, No. 2 |
| Poblet, Marta | Mobile Governance: Empowering Citizens to Promote the Rule of Law Under review, 2010 |
| Poblet, Marta | Mobile Technologies for Conflict Management Online Dispute Resolution, Governance, Participation Law, Governance and Technology Series, Volume 2 (2011), Springer Link |
| Poynter Institute & Telekom Austria Group | IPI Report - Brave New Worlds: Navigating the New Media Landscape - |
| Ramirez, J | 'Ushahidi' Technology Saves Lives in Haiti and Chile - |
| Rencoret, N., Stoddard, A., Katherine, H., Taylor, G., & Harvey, P | Haiti Earthquake Response: Context Analysis DAC Network on Development Evaluation, 2010 |
| Rogstadius, Jakob; Kostakos, Vassilis et. al | Towards Real-time Emergency Response using Crowd Supported Analysis of Social Media Research Paper (2011) |
| Sarrazin, Tom | Texting, Tweeting, Mobile Internet New Platforms for Democratic Debate in Africa FES Media Africa Series (2011) |
| Sharma, Ankit | Evaluating IT enabled Crisis Management Systems - The Case of Haiti Earthquake Relief Response MSc Dissertation - London School of Economics (2010) |
| Sherman, Aliza | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crowdsourcing Alpha Publisher (2011) |
| Shirky, Clay | Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators Penguin Publisher (2011) |
| Slagh, Christopher Lawrence | Managing Chaos, 140 Characters at a time: How the usage of Social Media in the 2010 Haiti Crisis Enhanced Disaster Relief Masters Dissertation - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University (2010) - Available on Request |
| Slaughter, Anne-Marie; Meegoda, Eleanor | Harnessing Connection Technologies for Development The 2012 Brookings Blum Roundtable Policy Briefs |
| Staal, Frans | Interaction between Social Media and Democracy Masters Thesis Information Management - Tilburg School of Economics and Management (2011) |
| Starbird, Kate and Palen, Leysia | Pass It On?: Retweeting in Mass Emergency Proceedings of the 7th International ISCRAM Conference, 2010 |
| Stauffacher Daniel, Weekes Barbara, Gasses Urs, Maclay Colin and Best Michael | Peace Building in the Information Age Sifting Hype from Reality ICT4Peace, January 2011 |
| Tapscott, Don | Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World Portfolio Publishing (2010) |
| Taylor, Keisha | Inter-governmental organisations sharing and linking open and real-time data for inclusive governance: development effectiveness and protection of privacy and security Diplo Foundation (2011) |
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This data and literature are compiled by Ankit Sharma. Please feel free to contact him directly if you have any questions.