Hollaback! is a non-profit involved in the movement to end street based gender violence through mobile technology. By using mobile phone apps and crowd sourcing technology, hollaback provides a safe virtual space when folks can share their experiences of gender violence and have it plotted on an interactive map.

Street harassment is a culturally acceptable form of gender violence. Hollaback tracks the violence and gives a folks a forum to break the silence around street harassment while actively resisting it.

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Ushahidi is an open source real time crowdsourcing tool that maps crisis incidents sent in through mobile phones. Like wordpress or tumblr, Ushadhidi is a platform. You can embed a map into your website or create your own separate version.

Crisis mapping utilizes mobile technology, geospatial platforms, visual models, and statistics to spur rapid early warning responses in a range of disaster scenarios. As a tool, crisis mapping has enabled those on the ground to better plan and allocate resources in humanitarian emergencies.

Essentially, crisis mappers are engaged in the live mapping of evolving catastrophes. Interestingly, crisis mapping technology has been leveraged in numerous cases including political, social, and environmental crises.

Founded in 2009, the International Network of Crisis Mappers remains the world's largest and most active association of crisis mapping community members.

http://crisismappers.net/

http://irevolution.net/2011/01/20/what-is-crisis-mapping/

CitizenShift, Parole citoyenne, the Institut du nouveau monde (INM), Media@McGill, Alternatives and Communautique invite bloggers, engaged filmmakers, photographers, citizen journalists, media experts, independent media practitioners and others to the second Citizen Media Rendez-Vous on Monday, August 23, 2010 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal.

This international event begins at 8:30 a.m. and runs until 6:00 p.m., with networking sessions, two panel discussions, a Cinema Politica Rendez-Vous screening room and a multimedia exhibit of posters from 40 years of social movements in Québec related to media.