Crowd Sourcing - Incident Reporting in Haiti

Any witness can report, via a variety of techniques, to a map-based data base of related pattern of problems, then other people can add additional information to any reported incident, such as follow-up details, closure, links to news stories. Haiti SOS

http://haiti.ushahidi.com/

The #s indicate #s of incidents, at the location shown, where people needed help.Notice the categories of types of help needed, relevant to Haiti disaster. Reports

http://haiti.ushahidi.com/reports

are sorted to show most recent SOS on top.There's RSS news reader so people can get details and links about new incidents, as they are reported.When you look at ONE Incident, it is shown on the map as a red dot.Nearby there are orange dots locating other incidents.You can mouse over, click on, get full details on those other incidents.