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Humanitarian Tracker (HT) is a forum that connects and empowers citizens around the world be giving them a voice to tell their story. Crowdsourcing allows people to tell the story by reporting what is happening in their environment. It is non-political, non-partisan effort, with no religious affiliation and dedicated strictly to supporting a humanitarian cause. • HT provides a platform that is user friendly, allowing people to submit reports, pictures or video

describing what is happening to them and around them. When citizen reports are submitted, Humanitarian Tracker ensures accuracy of the reports by verifying them against either official sources or other citizen reports.

• It offers tools, methods, and training by which citizen journalists can share reports of what they witness on the ground, worldwide, about human rights violations, disease spread, rape, conflicts, or disasters. Humanitarian Tracker also offers data mining tools that scan sources on the web, including: official news reports, social media (Twitter and Facebook) and blogs

• We also tap into a wide network of professionals, media and policy makers to help share information and tackle the issue from all sides.

Projects Syria Tracker is a crowdsourcing effort that has been collecting a comprehensive list of eye witness reports from within Syria, often accompanied by media links, on human rights violations and casualties in Syria, since April 2011. It is Humanitarian Tracker’s flag ship project with the ultimate goal of providing the number of fatalities, and also preserve the name, location and details of each victim. Whenever possible, each name is linked to a photo or video of each casualty. Aggregate reports including analysis and visualizations of deaths and atrocities in Syria with a stream of content-filtered media from news, social media (Twitter and Facebook) and official sources. Since it was launched in April 2011, Syria Tracker has published more than 4,000 geo-tagged eye witness reports from citizen journalists and over 160,000 official news reports, which provide a living record of the progression of the revolution and its aftermath Epidemic Tracker: During a crisis, an increase in disease outbreaks can be exacerbated by the breakdown of infrastructure and waste disposal. It is also believed that conducting surveillance, while essential, can be extremely difficult especially during times of war. However, there is still a need to contain the outbreaks. In Syria, and in the midst of this ongoing crisis, our team created this rapid collection form to help clinicians track epidemics on the ground. Epidemic Tracker is now being deployed in Arabic to track Tuberculosis, Leishmaniasis and Viral Hepatitis epidemics as a result of the current unrest.