[wdmmg-discuss] Using Ushahidi to crisis-map The Cuts

[Rufus Pollock]

On 9 October 2010 13:09, Richard Pope <richard at memespring.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is too political for OKF to do as an official
> project or not, but does anyone fancy helping setup an install of
> Ushahidi to monitor the impact of the cuts?  I have a server it can
> live on.

Yes, I think WDMMG would definitely be up for this. We have also been
planning to move the existing 'where are the cuts' miniapp from
wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/ to a dedicated site and for this purpose
have registered the domain name:

<http://www.wherearethcuts.org/>

Server offer is good though we also have space for hosting this --
what is much more valuable is help setting it up :)

> http://www.ushahidi.com/
>
> The kind of information I'd like to gather is at the impact end of the
> cuts, so $x mental health project shut, $n people made redundant from
> child services.

I.e. the "hard" (and more important) info -- relative to the basic
"these are the cut amounts" (which isn't trivial either!)

> Ideally this would need to be up and running by the day of the
> spending review. Tres news-worthy IMO.

Agreed. Perhaps we can try doing a sprint on this next week -- I think
we could get it all up and running in under a day given the work done
so far!

Rufus
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