The World Needs Open-source Now More Than Ever
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Ushahidi’s open-source crowdsourcing platform is deployed more than 150 times in 116 countries, powering maps that connect volunteers to people in need, collect over 10,000 reports and help distribute more than 28,000 masks while teams replicate the model across 22 countries. Deployments include a Safecast Ushahidi pod documenting COVID-19 testing experiences. Work surfaces interoperability gaps across health data, enforces GDPR and anonymous-reporting practices, and proves community-built tools can scale and produce actionable evidence.
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- 0:00Start
- 1:15World Hea Organization
- 2:01Information gaps
- 2:31Negative effects of lockdowns
- 3:11Limited Gove response Capacity
- 10:52Learning from th past
- 14:11Interoperability
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