Deployments of the Week

Deployments and deployers are the backbone of all things Ushahidi. So, a few months ago we started to recognize Deployments of the Week We are delighted to see the wide-range of projects on any given week. : October 15 - United for Global Change, SMS in Action: SMS Solutions for Social Good and one to track WildHorses in Romania. The Criteria: Recognize deployments, deployers, teams of deployers, individuals and communities and feature Ushahidi and Crowdmaps that do one or more of the following: build community/teamwork, demonstrate outreach, showcase/expand the open source software (new themes or code), have a unique or timely topic, be active and more.

Deployments of the Week

(Globe-sized Graffiti in Montreal, QC. Photo by Heather Leson)

October 7 - 15.10.2011: United for #globalchange October 15 (global)

September 30 - Mapping community needs in Chisinau (Moldovia)

September 23 - Mapping community needs in Livorno (Italy)

September 15 - Election Monitoring in Guatemala and Zambia

September 9 -Hospitals and Medical issues (Barcelona, Spain)

September 2 - Crisis Response - Irene Hurricane Recovery with an honourable mention to VTIrene Crisis Map (USA)

August 26 - Reporting Corruption/Violence (Bulgaria)

August 19 - Corruption, Traffic - Lagos (Nigeria)

August 12 - Agriculture - Agrotestigo Plant Disease tracking (Argentina)

August 3 - Civil Society/Community Building - Fix your Street (Ireland)

July 26 - Zabatak - Corruption (Egypt)

July 18 - Available Petrol (South Africa)

How you can help:

We would like your input on Deployments of the Week. These deployments should be active and fit some of the criteria noted above. Please be sure to mention your deployment to us: tweet @ushahidi or @crowdmap or post to our Facebook page. Some deployments are not publicly available as deployers can opt out of search. The Ushahidi team has been reviewing and voting on the deployments on a weekly basis. We will look into opening up the voting.

Deployment Types

We've found that there are a few types of deployments, but are watching as it expands:

Election monitoring

Crisis and Emergency Response

Civil and Community Building

Activism

Storytellers, Business and other topics

Who are the user groups?

Our community is so diverse in skills and general types of user groups. We talked previously about the types of community members by skill, but these are some of the core groups who deploy:

Media

Civil Society organizations

Deployment Partners

Non-governmental/Governmental associations, UN (local, national, global)

Community-Based Organizations (CBOs)

Citizen Media

Volunteer teams like the StandbyTaskForce, CrisisCommons, Humanity Road, Geeks Without Bounds and more

Researchers/Academics

Technical developers

Mappers/GIS

Remarkable Individuals

and more.