Ushahidi crowdsourced crisis mapping
Ushahidi (cartografía colaborativa de crisis)
- Date
- 2008 · confidence high
- Place
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Credited to
- Ory Okolloh, Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich and David Kobia
- People
- 👤 David Kobia👤 Erik Hersman1975–👤 Juliana Rotich1977–👤 Ory Okolloh1977–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A free-software platform for collecting citizen reports by SMS and web and plotting them on a map, created during Kenya's post-election violence. It was used after the Haiti earthquake and in many other crises.
Ushahidi means 'testimony' in Swahili.
What it led to
- collaborative humanitarian mapping
- iHub and Nairobi's tech ecosystem
- citizen election monitoring