Global Entrepreneurship
Ushahidi remixes have been used in India to monitor elections; in Africa to report medicine shortages; in the Middle East to collect reports of wartime violence; and in Washington, D.C., where the Washington Post partnered to build a site to map road blockages and the location of available snowplows and blowers.’
Ushahidi asks us to rethink how we view the process of innovation and organisation. Theirs was a non-linear response in every sense of the word where high levels of motivation and a blend of skill sets realised Ushahidi as a platform that circumvented all obstacles to its success. From an organisational perspective, we can see that participatory cultures, open source and collaborative tools, combined with communication networks, enable a coalition of the willing to form and work together.
So why is Ushahidi relevant to how we can better understand innovation? Here are a few pointers;
1. Literacy of Open Innovation – enabled by Open Source and Open API’s of different platforms – ability to build on the work of others – modify and create 2. Human-OS – motivation of human beings to respond and engage with a cause
3. Rough consensus running code – constant iterative improvement
4. Blended reality – Online and offline 5. Read / write platform 6. New organisational capability 7. Constraint of design fuels innovation 8. Data
So a question those charged with innovation is – would we be able to create such breakthrough innovation within our existing culture?
To find out more about Ushahidi, visit
www.ushahidi.com or visit
www.no-straight-lines.com for the original article.
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