OUR WORK

Ushahidi in the Field
Ushahidi was a simple website mashup, using user-generated reports & Google Maps, created to gather citizen generated crisis information after the post-election violence in Kenya. Below are some of the countries & projects that are using the first generation of the Ushahidi Engine:

• new!Wildlife Trackers is a citizen science project to track wildlife in Kenya.
• new!Connection GeoMap, managed by Survivors Connect seeks to create a space to share critical information about trafficking & anti-trafficking activity globally, promote transparency in our efforts, engage communities & learn best practices, current challenges & needs in our global effort.
• new!Atlanta Crime Maps tracks crime in the Atlanta metro area.
• Stop Stockouts is an initiative to track near real-time stockouts of medical supplies at pharmacies (in a medical store or health facility) in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi & Zambia.
• The Computer Professionals' Union in the Philippines created the initiative called TXTpower, an effort to keep an eye on the mobile phone companies by ordinary citizens.
• The Cuidemos el Voto mashup is an independent platform to help monitor the federal elections of 5 July 2009 in Mexico.
• We set up a site to track the Swine Flu reports coming in from official & unofficial sources at Swineflu.Ushahidi.com. We have also created a way for citizen reports to be submitted (they remain unverified).
• Vote Report India is a collaborative citizen-driven election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian general elections.
• Al Jazeera uses Ushahidi in their "War on Gaza" website covering the activity happening in Gaza in January 2009.
• Peace Heroes: Unsung Peace Heroes is a campaign developed by Butterfly Works & Media Focus on Africa Foundation. The goal is to nominate people who helped do positive things during & after the post-election violence in Kenya. Kenyan heroes are ordinary people who did extraordinary things for their fellow citizens or their country.
• Congo (DRC): Deployment to the DRC Congo happened on Nov 7, 2008 - the week after our initial release of the alpha version of the new Ushahidi Engine software.
• Kenya: The initial mashup, used to track reports of incidents of violence around Kenya.
• South Africa: Used to map xenophobic attacks perpetrated against non-South Africans.