Hi all, I’m an Australian researcher designing a project comparing different Ushahidi deployments. I am wondering if anyone has anything planned for 2012 - ideally, I am looking for a relatively small scale African deployment focusing on election monitoring. The research would involve collecting deployment data and interviewing participants and local and international NGOs to understand how they see/use the data. I’d be grateful for any information on upcoming deployments like this. Ideally the research would prove of use to local NGOs involved by providing a snapshot of a deployment. Thank you!
Any deployments planned for local elections in 2013?
HI Sarah, Ushahidi is working on the .ke elections. Please watch our blog for more details on this. We will be doing a simulation next week.
It would be good for you to post this to our community mailing list too. Details on how to do this are on this wiki page - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Contact+Us
Once a week, I post an Ushahidi weekly report outlining help wanted. This is posted on Wednesday (EDT). If you send me a summary with your contact details to hleson at ushahidi dot com, I can include your request.
https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Ushahidi+Community+Weekly+Updates
In the meantime, here is our wiki page on elections - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Election+Monitoring
heather
Hi Heather - thank you so much for your reply. I am hopefully looking to compare the .ke deployment with a smaller scale deployment. Thank you for your links - I will post on the community forum asap and send you an email with the details of my request.
Much appreciated,
Sarah.