There was an interesting blog post in the Times last week about this group and their Geeks4Peace efforts leading up to the election (which is today):  http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/geeks-for-peace/

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From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Francis Kayiwa [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 03:07:34PM +0000, Lin, Kun wrote:
> Check http://www.ushahidi.com/products
> This is the description on TurnkeyLinux
> "Ushahidi (Swahili for "testimony" or "witness") is a crowdsourcing application created in the aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election that enables local observers to submit reports using their mobile phones or the internet, while simultaneously creating a temporal and geospatial archive of events."
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> http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ushahidi

As one who grew up in Kenya... The "Swahili" people speak the Kiswahili
language. Like top posting I should probably give this up though. The
people have spoken. ;-)

Cheers,
./fxk

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kari R Smith
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France
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> Jason,
> DSpace now has a hosted option, DSpace Direct, which might be a really good option for this group.  I'll send her an email message directly about it.  Looks like it doesn't really launch until summer but what a great option for folks without a IT department to support them.
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> http://dspacedirect.org/dspacedirect
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> Kari Smith
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jason Raitz
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 2:13 PM
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France
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> Hi,
> I've just been contacted out of the blue by someone working with a joint Haitian/French human rights organization that needs to create a searchable, bilingual elibrary on human rights violations in Haiti.  They've secured hosting in America for various reasons and they have a few thousand or more documents to store, index and make available.  The lady I talked to had an interest in using facets and storing the documents in a MySQL db.  I briefly suggested that Solr and Blacklight might be where they're heading.
> I also suggested that she might be able to get more help from an I-school like my alma mater, UNC-SILS.
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> If anyone would like to assist her or has some ideas or experience with such things, her email is reneeasteria [at] gmail [dot] com.
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> She didn't tell me much more beyond this.  I believe that she doesn't consider herself a programmer (I bet we would consider her a coder :-) ), she's been working with statistical software for a number of years, and that she is able to learn what's necessary.
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> I'm not sure of any protocols, but I went ahead and CC'd Renee on this message.
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> Cheers,
> Jason Raitz
> NCSU Libraries
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