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Africa Forum on Civil Society
and Governance Assessments
You Map What You Want
Ushahidi = Testimony
• Born out of the post-election violence in
Kenya in 2008, used to map reports of
violence and peace efforts throughout
the country.
• openness | innovation | community
We build tools for democratizinginformation, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.
We’re a disruptive organization that is willing to take risks in the pursuit of changing the traditional way that information flows in the world.
Social Impact• Enabling the wider coverage of crisis, elections and
political movements that would otherwise be
unreported or underreported
• Create an easy-to-use tool that is freely and instantly
available to individuals, NGOs and other organizations
allowing them to focus on mobilizing the content and the
response
• Facilitate transparency and accountability by
amplifying citizen voices with a consumer-focused tool,
designed with areas with limited access in mind
• Developing ability for stakeholders in a particular
situation to share and find data
We meet you where you are
We understand the unique innovation challenges
Ushahidi the platform
is a piece of software,
not a methodology.
Volunteers Public
/Victims
Public / News
Consumers
Responders
Public / News
ProducersAdvertisers
Funders
Donors
Activists
Government
Policy
Disaster Response
March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 views
Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis
sinsai.info/ushahidi
uchaguzi.co.ke
Election Monitoring
August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 views
Monitor Kenya referendum election
Citizen
Journalism
December 2010 - 319 reports, 156,859 views
Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in
Egypt
harassmap.com urbandesignweek.org
By the City / For the City (NYC)
Integration of social media into placemaking
practices, which are community centered,
encouraging public participation, collaboration and
transparency.
Communities
Libya Crisis
libyacrisismap.net
The Libya Crisis Map deployed by request of UN Office for
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Stop Stockouts
stopstockouts.org
Service Delivery
huduma.info
THE FUTURE
Real-time Geo
Search
Static Search
Results
Dynamic
Real-time
Geographic
Data
‣ Sweeper - A front-end tool for
parsing massive amounts of
information, finding patterns, and
plugging it into Ushahidi. Also
sold as SaaS.
‣ RiverID - a pseudo-anonymous ID
tool for information sources.
‣ APIs - Offered as SaaS, these are
the tools we use to power
Sweeper, includes;
‣ tagging
‣ location
‣ influence
‣ reputation
‣ duplication filter
Free and open source SMS gateway for Android
Mobile
Whitelabeling of Android and iOS apps