Comments on: The promise and peril of crowd sourcing crisis information

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Paul Currion on the “crisis” of crowdsourcing in a crisis « — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:51:37 +0000

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By: katrin

katrin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:28:59 +0000

Hi, nice post. Just a point of clarification, though — the Ushahidi deployment for Gaza by Al Jazera uses a local SMS service run by an NGO called Souktel. Gaza is a case where SMS gateways are few and strictly controlled so Frontline would not have worked there. Souktel has a gateway in and out of Palestine, both Gaza and the West Bank that is already established and operational for their job-matching service in the area. Souktel has also offered its service at cost for any humanitarian NGO needing to get SMS in and out of the region. For more, see http://mobileactive.org/gaza-update-mapping-and-citizen-reporting-sms-al-jazeera.