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Ushahidi in the News
New York Times
The software allows text messages to be mapped by time and location. It was developed to track reports of ethnic violence in Kenya in 2008. Suddenly mere words can create a moving picture of where violence started and where it intensified.
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The software allows text messages to be mapped by time and location. It was developed to track reports of ethnic violence in Kenya in 2008. Suddenly mere words can create a moving picture of where violence started and where it intensified.
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The Nation (Kenya)
Ory Okolloh, the South Africa-based Kenyan lawyer and co-founder of Ushahidi says that the innovation has now become a platform that allows Kenyans to report any event or incident (not just a crisis) via the Internet, mobile phone or Twitter.
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Ory Okolloh, the South Africa-based Kenyan lawyer and co-founder of Ushahidi says that the innovation has now become a platform that allows Kenyans to report any event or incident (not just a crisis) via the Internet, mobile phone or Twitter.
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Forbes Magazine
A Kenyan blogger found a way to get information from the crowd. Now she wants to take the idea to other parts of the world in trouble.
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A Kenyan blogger found a way to get information from the crowd. Now she wants to take the idea to other parts of the world in trouble.
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BBC
A project combining two technologies developed for use elsewhere in the developing world, Frontline SMS and Ushahidi, is enabling people in remote areas of the country to send in reports of incidents or vote-tampering so that they can be plotted on an online map.
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A project combining two technologies developed for use elsewhere in the developing world, Frontline SMS and Ushahidi, is enabling people in remote areas of the country to send in reports of incidents or vote-tampering so that they can be plotted on an online map.
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