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Status Update regarding Ushahidi Deployments for Nepal
As online volunteers mobilize and international aid begins to flow in response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal, we have been reviewing known deployments of our software in the...
Supporting Online Volunteer Response to the Nepal Earthquake
Shadrock Roberts We understand the need to help; to act; to get involved when disaster strikes. It’s part of our history and why we create the tools that we do. We love technology because it allows...
Ushahidi supports Mozambique general election
Michelle Hamilton-Page — 12/02/2014 Ushahidi team members recently provided blogger training and deployment consultation for the Txeka-la initiative monitoring the Mozambique general election and...
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Tracking Ebola with CrisisNET and the Ushahidi Platform
The Ebola epidemic has finally captured international attention. Coverage of Ebola was minimal when the disease was confined to West Africa, but a small number of recent cases in the US and Europe...
Introducing CrisisNET
At Ushahidi, we love helping people turn data into social impact. We’ve helped thousands of users gather and manage crowdsourced data during everything from natural disasters to political...
Humanitarian Tracker: Crowdsourcing Syria Crisis since 2011
(Guest post by Taha Kass-Hout and Hend Alhinnawi from Humanitarian Tracker, which is a non-profit global forum that connects and empowers citizens using innovation in technology to support...
Crisis Mapping Haiti: Some Final Reflections
For various reasons, the Ushahidi-Haiti Project continues to be cited in numerous reports, book chapters, media articles and conferences more than two years after the devastating earthquake struck...
Uchaguzi Kenya 2013 Launched
As you approach a major milestone in life someone usually asks, “What would you have done differently if you knew then what you know today?” Many times this is nothing more than just a curious...
Online Activity Has Potential To Escalate Election Violence
Umati, a project of iHub Research and Ushahidi, has produced a pioneering collection of inflammatory speech, posted online by Kenyans in the past three months, as our presidential elections draw...
Independent Evaluation of the Ushahidi Haiti Project
Executive Summary The Ushahidi Haiti Project (UHP) was a volunteer-driven effort to produce a crisis map after the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The project represents an impressive proof of...