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Ushahidi in the Field
Ushahidi was a simple website mashup, using user-generated reports and Google Maps, created to gather citizen generated crisis information after the post-election violence in Kenya. Below are some of the countries and projects that are using the first generation of the Ushahidi Engine:
- Peace Heroes: Unsung Peace Heroes is a campaign developed by Butterfly Works and Media Focus on Africa Foundation. The goal is to nominate people who helped do positive things during and 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.
Pilot Projects
We have rebuilt the engine from the ground up as a free and open source platform that anyone can download, or host with us. Private alpha deployments start in September 2008, where we will focus on projects hosted on our own servers.