Can a Crowdsourcing Crisis Response System help Kashmir?
SMSing in times of distress: Tagging the SMS! The concept of crowdsourcing crisis information was started by Ushahidi in Kenya in 2008. Ushahidi enabled the ‘crowd’ to communicate crisis information via SMS, e-mail, or Web entry. Subsequently, the information received was time stamped and geo tagged to create a crisis map to report incidents to…