Fwd: CRISIS : Crowd mapping via ushahidi

[cedric Atangana]

TO ALL THE AFRICANS WORLDWIDE

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In light of recent terrorist attacks in the North of Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad and Niger, I thought once more about the project Michael and Charlie had designed : "citizens on the frontline." Although you did not get funding for it,  at this time, I think you should try to implement it with limited crowdfunded funds . The platform you wanted to build from scratch has worked before in Kenya during their civil unrest : Ushahidi. Please read and YouTube their impact and mechanism. 

I met the Co-Founder of the platform in South Africa, as we both sit on the Microsoft 4Afrika board,  she told me   Ushahidi has decentralized their system, so any programmer/IT pro could see how to adapt It to heir local settings.  You can either use their free crowdmap available on their website, or pay $10.000 for their customized map. Since at this point it will take too long to develop the platform from scratch, both options can be explored. 

If we crowdfund I can commit personal funds to this, and mobilize some other friends and family members to  commit each $100 to $200 to get this platform and tool working. I can also reach out to Juliana (Co-Founder) of Ushahidi to see if we can have a discount or how best to implement this cost free (on the development)

Check out these links please: 
1. Wikipedia explanation of Ushahidi : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushahidi
2. View their services  http://www.ushahidi.com/services/
3. Their platform can be adopted to local crisis, with crowd mapping: http://www.ushahidi.com/product/crowdmap/

Let's self fund this and get it going.

All the plans and activities we have cannot thrive if there's no peace in our country,  and unless we empower citizens in affected areas with the tools and power to share real time information, we will only be receiving the blows.

Please let me know your thoughts on this, and please Michael and Charlie,  re-share your project to all cc'd here.

Note that : These are my personal views from my personal account. No institution is speaking through me.

** Also,  I've cc'd various techies,  and people I know can provide a critical point of view to this idea. 

God bless you and your families today,

----- by Olivia Mukam Wandji

A famous African proverb says that "When your neighbor's home is burning, haste thee to help him put out the fire of fear that it will attack yours." It is therefore essential that each of us brings his stone has the edifice. Let's crowdfund to build this IT tool that can help saving millions of lives and protect the bright future that I know that each of us is dreaming about for this amazing and AWESOME continent that is called AFRICA. 

I created a Google+ community called IT4Africa and I invite all of you to join and suggest ideas for open source projects on how we can contribute to sort such kind of issues out IN THE WHOLE OF AFRICA. Let's STOP waitting assistance, let's work together as a T.E.AM because Together Each Achieve More. 

I'm not sure that I covered the world, so, please share to your communities worldwide to spread the word and Join NOW to help how you can, feel free to share your ideas, thought etc.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110262164796599146016 

Best Regards / Bien Cordialement.

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[cedric Atangana]

Hi guys,

Time to sleep is over : here is the 3rd kamikaze attack in Cameroon and Chad in 2 days only killing more than 46 people few minutes ago. Follow the hashtag  to read what people are currently reporting about https://twitter.com/search?q=%23maroua&src=typd

Why are we, Africans, so lazy sometimes when it comes to work together on our common issues ? Why are we, Africans, so lazy when it comes to act very fast to tackle our common issues ? You can be in your country with no issue today but you never no how tommorow is gonna be for you. Some of us have face such issues in the past with other Africans from other countries were just watching without reacting. THIS MUST STOP AND WE SHOULD TAKE ACTION JUST RIGHT NOW.

My last e-mail was a "call to action" that was sent accross the whole continent but only 13 people reacted and joined the group discussion for us to find a way to help with the tools that we master and proposes solutions to sort this EMERGENCY out and help people on the ground.

Please, invite as much Africans as you can and LET'S TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW !

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110262164796599146016

Best Regards / Bien Cordialement.

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[cedric Atangana]

Yeah @Max,

That's why I should all join the group, to make the conversation easier guys : https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110262164796599146016

Let's set up all the tools that we can use to communicate in a more efficient way. Please start suggestiong or let's go to the group. We master mobile technologies (Android, SMSes etc), Cloud, distributed tech such Raspberry Pis, Drones etc. 

Please suggest....

Best Regards / Bien Cordialement.

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2015-07-25 22:39 GMT+02:00 Max Bonbhel <bon...@gmail.com>:

@Cédric
Maybe the time to use @mail@ tool to reach more people.

@Lamine
Please advise !

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[cedric Atangana]

Yeah @Max,

That's why we should all join the group, to make the conversation easier guys and tackle this emergency : https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110262164796599146016

Let's set up all the tools that we can use to communicate in a more efficient way. Please start suggestiong or let's go to the group. We master mobile technologies (Android, SMSes etc), Cloud, distributed tech such Raspberry Pis, Drones etc. 

Please suggest....

Best Regards / Bien Cordialement.

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[cedric Atangana]

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amine,

I started a small thread on this with various devs across the continent and we drafted this plan :

1) build a website that will crawl all the infos on the web 

​and display them on a landing page. We choosed Wordpress + material design + Google Cloud platform on PHP to go fast here is the bitbucket repo for everybody to join : (I will create a github one if required) https://bitbucket.org/it4africacommunity/crizis

​2) ​

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​Plan and launch a crowdfunding campaign to collect small funding to buy a free green number where people on the affected countries can send free text messages (those who have good connections with mobile operators can help there to negociate the lower prices possible for us to cover all the SMS cost sent by users​ to our green number)

3) add an SMS feature to mass send advices to populations

​4) collect all the SMS sent and aggregate them with the tweets + all available hashtags and display them on a map for data visualization

5) Then we decide what to do next.

​When can we plan a hangouts guys ? In my side, I'm available at any time​

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Best Regards / Bien Cordialement.

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2015-07-26 1:32 GMT+02:00 Lamine Ba <tlam...@gmail.com>:

@Cedric,

Yes, we should definitely use atmailat.com so when you blast out a sensitive email, the recipients can respond to you or to one another without signing up to all the mailing lists that you are part of.

Best Regards, Lamine Ba

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Lamine Ba <tlam...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok Cedric,

Let's do it.  Let's save Africa. Should we have a hangout about this to setup a plan of attack?

Best Regards, Lamine Ba

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[cedric Atangana]

Well received Imhoteb,

I suggest we make it at 19:00 CEST (GMT 0) if everything is okay for you today. Please join the community on G+ I will share the link there.

Please confirm.

Cedric

On Jul 26, 2015 2:42 AM, "Imhotep BAKHOUM" <hot...@gmail.com> wrote:

☥good initiative, let's plan a Hangout to discuss seriously in what we gonna do

Kind Regards :

Imhotep D. BAKHOUM

2015-07-25 23:42 GMT+00:00 Rajil VEMBE <rocab...@gmail.com>:

Tomorrow Google be great night #hangout

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[cedric Atangana]

Hei guys, 

are you available right now for a 40min hangouts call please ? please confirm. 

Thanks.

Best Regards / Bien Cordialement.

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2015-07-26 1:42 GMT+02:00 Rajil VEMBE <rocab...@gmail.com>:

Tomorrow Google be great night #hangout

On Jul 26, 2015 12:40 AM, "cedric Atangana" <cedrica...@gmail.com> wrote:

[cedric Atangana]

​Super cool !

thanks for the availability : Here is the link : https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/guvhcy4zmvcrgrcodu222es5lya?authuser=1&hl=en​

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2015-07-26 18:15 GMT+02:00 Max Bonbhel <bon...@gmail.com>:

I'm up !

Hangout link please !

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[cedric Atangana]

Hi guys,

Hope you are all good, we had our 1st meeting today with some of you accross the continent. I thank all of you who took small of their time to come and discuss with the others on what we can do for our continent together. This is the short report of what we have said and the next steps in our project to bring our block to the building.

We have been working together for years on cool continental projects and challenges  where we had fun etc. Now we are living the difficult part of our history and we have to face it with strenght, comfidence and hand in hand together I believe we can make it.

We have built sub-teams to take the project to the next level, so, please feel free to join one of them to help in your way.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RTr5G5-MBXtqYsyZw66r6OkBMYAJZ8vr7E-LkTIcRKE/edit

Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Nice sunday

Best Regards / Bien Cordialement.

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2015-07-26 1:42 GMT+02:00 Rajil VEMBE <rocab...@gmail.com>:

Tomorrow Google be great night #hangout

On Jul 26, 2015 12:40 AM, "cedric Atangana" <cedrica...@gmail.com> wrote: