What is the Ushahidi Platform
We built the Ushahidi platform as a tool to easily crowdsource information using multiple channels, including SMS, email, Twitter and the web.
Manage the River of Information
SwiftRiver is an open source platform that aims to democratize access to tools for filtering & making sense of real-time information.
Crowdsourcing In "the cloud"
When you need to get the Ushahidi platform up in 2 minutes to crowdsource information, Crowdmap will do it for you. It's our hosted version of the Ushahidi platform.
It was just really fascinating to see how quickly the public picked up the technology and was able to embrace it. They really were dying to have an avenue to express their views.
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Open-sourced, Crowd-sourced Ushahidi Platform Following Snowmageddon
Treehugger
Snowmageddon is a website set up to help people dig out of the blizzard in New York. It was originally set up last year in Washington; it is an attempt to crowdsource information, where people can use their...
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Internet Activists Mobilize for Japan
Technology ReviewJust a few hours after Japan was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami early on Friday morning, people mobilized online to help.... Read more »
The World's Top 10 Gov 2.0 Initiatives
ShareableThe site has grown to become an important resource for citizen journalists in times of crisis like the Haiti earthquake. The Ushahidi... Read more »
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