Ushahidi

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Ushahidi (Kiswahili for "testimony" or "witness") is a website created in the aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election (see 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis ^W) that collected eyewitness reports of violence sent in by email and text-message and placed them on a Google map. ^[1] It is also the name of the open source software developed for that site, which has since been improved, released freely, and used for a number of similar projects.

Ushahidi uses the concept of crowdsourcing for social activism and public accountability, serving as an initial model for what has been coined as 'activist mapping' - the combination of social activism, citizen journalism and geospatial information. Ushahidi provides a mechanism for local observers to submit reports using their mobile phones or the internet, while simultaneously creating a temporal and geospatial archive of events.

Global News[]

The Ushahidi Blog

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Source: Ushahidi

2010

Russian-Fires.ru, First Ushahidi Experience, 10 August ^[2] place, topic

Post-Kenya crisis uses[]

According to Wikipedia, the software has since been used in other countries including South Africa, India and Mexico, and during 2010 after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.