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Steve Hewlett focused on how twitter was used during the Mumbai attacks on the Media Show today.
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:32:41 +0000
Steve Hewlett focused on how twitter was used during the Mumbai attacks on the Media Show today.
Among those interviewed was Rory Cellan Jones who blogs about Mumbai and Twitter here.
Over on The Ushahidi Blog, Ory Okollah reflects on how her open-source crisis project fared in the DRC.
Okollah points to the need for a strong blogging community such as those that exist in Mumbai and in Kenya - where the project was first launched as a tool for people who witness acts of violence after the election.
The nature of the crisis in DRC also played a part: "As one person closely involved in assisting people affected by the crisis in DRC pointed out to me, in a crisis situation most people are on the run - they don't have time to file reports etc. In a place like Eastern DRC that is compounded by things like electricity cuts so phones can't be charged; difficulties having the resources to buy credit so the SMS functionality doesn't really help them..."
The project got some coverage in Forbes and Kenya's Daily Nation.
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