Henry Addo - @eyedol@ushahidi

What is Ushahidi?

Open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

Platform Community Movement

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.

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Social Impact• Enabling the wider coverage of crisis (and other

situations e.g. elections, MP performance) that would otherwise be unreported or under reported

• Creating 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

“If it works in Africa,

it can work anywhere”

Maps

Over 20,000 deployments and counting

Election Monitoring

Allow citizen reporting during election Monitor Kenya referendum election

Citizen Journalism

Document human and ecological impact of the oil spill

Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in Egypt

Disaster Response

Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis Allowed Haitians to report location and needs

Social Revolutions

Map location of Occupy movements across the US

Monitor Arab Spring evolution in Egypt

Open SourceGNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL)

CrowdmapCrowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of Ushahidi ‘in the

cloud’ without having to install it on your own web server.

Lessons

“A map is only as useful as the process and people to make it

happen.”

-George Chamales, Rogue Genius

Crowdsourcing platform must be easy to deploy, intuitive to

use, simple to localize and customize

Haiti 2010

Thank you

ushahidi.com crowdmap.com