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?