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CrisisTracker: Real-time Social Media Curation
CrisisTracker is a web platform that extracts situation awareness reports from public tweets during humanitarian disasters. It combines automated processing with crowdsourcing to quickly detect new events and bring together related evidence.


THREAD - a way to thread together information to take appropriate action
Thread is a platform that pieces together information from different places and connects this to the appropriate people and organizations to take action. By leveraging existing projects and technologies, Thread, connects them together.


StoryMaker - Create compelling, professional news stories using only a mobile phone
When mass violence happens, it is often difficult for professionals to reach and document in time. Citizens following simple task-based assignments can be relied upon to create credible documentation with only a mobile phone and no prior experience.


π - People's Intelligence: Networked reporting and verification
People's Intelligence automates the collection of relevant human rights and humanitarian information from hard to access areas and verifies it using crowdsourcing and “dumb” mobile phones.


P.A.C.T. - Portable Anonymous Communication Technology
Creating global transparency through empowering people to disseminate information anonymously using low cost, portable communication technologies that allow voice, text, pictures, and videos to be shared with each other and the world.


People's Radio - now with sound!
A radio channel made of ‘spoken tweets’ - short voice messages. Anyone can call a free-number - record a message and it'll be played on the People’s Radio. Citizens will be able to hear what's occurring in neighbouring communities and data gathered