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Ushahidi, which means ”testimony” in Swahili, is a website that was
developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election
fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi’s roots are in the
collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis.

The core engine is built on the premise that gathering crisis
information from the general public provides new insights into events
happening in near real-time. It is being developed by a group of
volunteer developers and designers, hailing primarily from Africa. So
far there are representatives from Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana,
Netherlands and the US.

Ushahidi plans to make the Ushahidi mapping tool available globally for
free. After initial testing with NGO’s the tool will be distributed to
interested parties and organizations, and the Ushahidi team will
provide technical customizations and support as needed.

Here are 2 of the current deployments of the system: