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• Ushahidi in 8 toolboxes
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  The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline.

  tagged: cell, crowdsourcing, data, map, mapping, message, opensource, phone, platform, sms, text, timeline
• SlingshotSMS in 1 toolbox
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  SlingshotSMS is a SMS gateway that can send and receive text messages on behalf of a web application. SlingshotSMS can be run off of a USB drive, needing only a GSM modem and an internet connection to act as a bridge between mobile phones and the web. It is used in combination with Managing News (see above) to map and visualize in real-time SMS messages.

  tagged: crowdsourcing, dataviz, Gateway, mapping
• Managing News in 1 toolbox
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  Managing News is a web-based news and data aggregator. It allows aggregating data from a variety of sources and offers several options to visualise and mapping the information in user-friendly ways. Through SlingshotSMS (see below), Managing News can also receive information via SMS which makes it particularly interesting for election monitoring and citizen reporting.

  tagged: crowdsourcing, dataviz, mapping, platform
• EnvayaSMS in 2 toolboxes
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  An open source Android app that acts as an SMS gateway

  tagged: crowdsourcing, Gateway, mapping
• Twilio in 3 toolboxes
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  A tool for creating a gateway between user on a cell phone and an app.

  tagged: crowdsourcing, Gateway, mapping
• SMS Integrator in 1 toolbox
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  Computer based SMS management system

  tagged: bulk, crowdsourcing, Gateway, mapping, message, sms, text