Tech: Better understand the veracity and level of importance of any piece of information from Africa

After a successful Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, a platform that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. The Ushahidi Community focuses more now on Swift River Technologie. Swift River according to the community, seeks to do two very important things, both of which seem are crucial for not just Ushahidi, but for many emergency response activities in the future. First, it gathers as many possible streams of data about a particular crisis event as possible. Second, using a two part filter, that stream of data is filtered through both machine based algorithms and humans to better understand the veracity and level of importance of any piece of information.