Ushahidi, or ‘testimony’: Web 2.0 Tools for Crowdsourcing Crisis Information

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An article by Ory Okolloh in Participatory Learning and Action (issue 59, June 2009), published by IIED, on Ushahidi, the web platform created during Kenya’s 2007 post-election crisis to collect and map reports of violence. Okolloh describes how Ushahidi came about and what it showed about using Web 2.0 tools to crowdsource crisis information. The article is six pages long.