{"id":257,"date":"2008-12-14T16:51:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T23:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2009-03-01T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:11:09","slug":"early-warning-systems-larry-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/14\/early-warning-systems-larry-brilliant\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Warning Systems – Larry Brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"

A thread over at the neXtPrize blog<\/a> got me thinking about Early Warning systems\u2013how mobile technologies like SMS can allow Twitter-like real-time monitoring of data for the purpose of discovering emerging disasters. Pragzz pointed me to a couple of non-profs that are already supporting this. Ushahadi<\/a> (Swahili for 'testimony') is an Open Source platform that anyone can use to set up and manage monitoring campaigns.<\/p>\n

The core engine is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. It is being developed by a group of volunteer developers and designers, hailing primarily from Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MobileActive.org<\/a> is a community of people and organizations using mobile phones for social impact.<\/p>\n

We are committed to increasing the effectiveness of NGOs around the world who recognize that the 3.5 billion mobile phones provide unprecedented opportunities for organizing, communications, and service and information delivery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their site also features a directory of NGOs who are using mobile phones to make a social impact.<\/p>\n

Researching this reminded me of a Ted talk I'd heard by Larry Brilliant on the occasion of his winning a 2006 Ted Wish prize. Larry's wish was to build a better early warning system for monitoring the outbreak of dangerous disease. Larry knows of what he speaks- he led the WHO team that eradicated Smallpox. He also was a founding member of the Seva Foundation<\/a> which has restored sight to hundreds of thousands. Based on the work previously done by GPHIN<\/a> Larry launched InSTEDD<\/a> which plans to amplify the data collection and monitoring capabilities of GPHIN a hundredfold. You can watch Larry's amazing Ted Talk and read a short history of the INSTEDD project here<\/a>. Larry launched InSTEDD with the $100,000 Ted prize. It will be interesting to see<\/a> what he can do with $1 billion as head of Google.org<\/a>. Go Larry<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

\"Larry<\/a>
Larry Brilliant photo by JD Lasica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See Also: HealthMap.org<\/a>
\nUpdate 022309: Larry departs Google.org to become \"Google's Chief Philanthropy Evangelist<\/a>\".<\/p>\n

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A thread over at the neXtPrize blog got me thinking about Early Warning systems\u2013how mobile technologies like SMS can allow Twitter-like real-time monitoring of data for the purpose of discovering emerging disasters. Pragzz pointed me to a couple of non-profs that are already supporting this. Ushahadi (Swahili for 'testimony') is an Open Source platform that … Continue reading \"Early Warning Systems – Larry Brilliant\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[256,48,251,255,253,115,252,254,11],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","tag-early-warning-systems","tag-health","tag-larry-brilliant","tag-mobileactive","tag-next-prize","tag-search","tag-seva-foundation","tag-ushahadi","tag-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}