Projects

Help Map (Russian-fire.ru)

First Ushahidi deployment in Russia receives “Internet Oscar, Ushahidi.com, http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/12/01/internet-oscar/

Ushahidi HelpMap, eJournal USA issue “Cultivating Civil Society 2.0.”, 05 October 2011, http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2011/09/20110913140603yelhsa0.2868311.html

Presentation by Heather Leson from Ushahidi about crowdsourcing and wildfires: http://www.slideshare.net/heatherleson/crowdsourcing-fire-and-floods

Rynda (Rynda.org)

Russia: Connecting Neighbors, Saving Lives, Ashley Cleek, http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/09/12/russia-connecting-neighbors-saving-lives/

Russia: Online Platforms Coordinating Aid for Flood Victims, http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/07/11/russia-overview-of-online-platforms-coordinating-aid-for-flood-victims/

I am a doctoral student in London School of Economics (LSE). I work on a PhD about the Internet's role in time of natural disasters. I was born in Russia, lived in Israel and the U.S. and currently based in UK. But actually I am a citizen of British Airways and resident of Starbucks who lives in a space of flows and conducts daily mass-self communication. I am not sure if it gets colder or we face warming, if it's glocal or global, if it's day or night, but it's swarming outside. Sometimes it looks like chaos, but actually it has some order. And even if the complexity of system means that there is nothing to do but to follow the chaotic swarms, I still believe in the power of individual to shape the structure. For this purpose we should engage critically with global swarming flows. This blog is a space of my self-reflexivity.