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What is Ushahidi?
Open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
The Android app is a client that is built around the Ushahidi's public API to make it possible to interact with Ushahidi via an Android phone.
Platform Community Movement
ushahidi.com
History"Ushahidi", which means "testimony" in Swahili, was a website that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008.
legacy.ushahidi.com
Election Monitoring
May 2009 - 202 reports, 20,000 viewsAllow citizen reporting during election
August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 viewsMonitor Kenya referendum election
votereport.in uchaguzi.co.ke
Citizen Journalism
May 2010 - 3397 reports, 406,715 viewsDocument human and ecological impact of
the oil spill
December 2010 - 319 reports, 156,859 views
Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt
harassmap.com oillspill.labucketbrigade.org
Disaster Response
March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 viewsMonitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
January 2010 - 3,584 reports, 500,000 viewsAllowed Haitians to report location and
needs
sinsai.info/ushahidi haiti.ushahidi.com
Checkins (CI)Quick location update which can include an optional
photo and description, sharing “I am here”.
bit.ly/checkins_purpose
CrowdmapCrowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi ‘in the cloud’ without having to install it on your own web server.
crowdmap.com
Volunteer
Translators Mappers
TestersDevelopers
ushahidi.com/contact-us
Questions?