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== Introduction ==

 * Receive tweets and / or SMS messages from the public.
 * Dispatch these to online workers to classify and geocode.
 * Display on a map.

=== Background ===
During the Haiti earthquake of Jan 2010, people trapped in buildings sent SMS messages to a designated shortcode.
These were classified, translated, and geocoded by online workers using [https://www.mturk.com Amazon's Mechanical Turk],
then provided to emergency managers.

During the Kenya 2013 general election, citizens and trained election monitors reported election-related incidents
via SMS and twitter. These were automatically entered into a map database, then vetted by online workers to remove
spam and contact the sender for clarification, before making the information public.  See: https://uchaguzi.co.ke/

During a Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon in 2010, a variant of this project was implemented using a Sahana Eden
as the back end and a custom web page (not automatically generated by Eden) as the front end. This was designed as
a training game -- workers got "experience points" and were awarded badges.

== Project breakdown ==

This project is intended to be easy to subdivide into tasks that can be worked on somewhat independently and in parallel,
given the choice of a few naming conventions for new database tables and fields.