Patrick Meier made a comment in his video that really made me consider how I thought of humanity as a whole, and how humans connect with one another. Meier was discussing the text messages received from people during the Haiti crisis. The number one most used word was "please". Meier emphasized the fact that these people had lost as least one person, if not entire families, and they are still saying please.
Not only is Ushahidi profound at mapping crises, it also maps all kinds of other things. According to Meier, there have been more than six-thousand maps launched on Ushahidi.
What a great observation. Ushahidi shows us that even in the middle of a live and death crisis, civility can endure.
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