Africa Forum on Civil Society

and Governance Assessments

You Map What You Want

Ushahidi = Testimony

• Born out of the post-election violence in

Kenya in 2008, used to map reports of

violence and peace efforts throughout

the country.

• openness | innovation | community

We build tools for democratizinginformation, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.

We’re a disruptive organization that is willing to take risks in the pursuit of changing the traditional way that information flows in the world.

Social Impact• Enabling the wider coverage of crisis, elections and

political movements that would otherwise be

unreported or underreported

• Create an easy-to-use tool that is freely and instantly

available to individuals, NGOs and other organizations

allowing them to focus on mobilizing the content and the

response

• Facilitate transparency and accountability by

amplifying citizen voices with a consumer-focused tool,

designed with areas with limited access in mind

• Developing ability for stakeholders in a particular

situation to share and find data

We meet you where you are

We understand the unique innovation challenges

Ushahidi the platform

is a piece of software,

not a methodology.

Volunteers Public

/Victims

Public / News

Consumers

Responders

Public / News

ProducersAdvertisers

Funders

Donors

Activists

Government

Policy

Disaster Response

March 2011 - 4,000+ reports, 144,974 views

Monitor fallout of tsunami and nuclear crisis

sinsai.info/ushahidi

uchaguzi.co.ke

Election Monitoring

August 2010 - 1525 reports, 20,000 views

Monitor Kenya referendum election

Citizen

Journalism

December 2010 - 319 reports, 156,859 views

Help bring awareness to sexual harassment in

Egypt

harassmap.com urbandesignweek.org

By the City / For the City (NYC)

Integration of social media into placemaking

practices, which are community centered,

encouraging public participation, collaboration and

transparency.

Communities

Libya Crisis

libyacrisismap.net

The Libya Crisis Map deployed by request of UN Office for

Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Stop Stockouts

stopstockouts.org

Service Delivery

huduma.info

THE FUTURE

Real-time Geo

Search

Static Search

Results

Dynamic

Real-time

Geographic

Data

‣ Sweeper - A front-end tool for

parsing massive amounts of

information, finding patterns, and

plugging it into Ushahidi. Also

sold as SaaS.

‣ RiverID - a pseudo-anonymous ID

tool for information sources.

‣ APIs - Offered as SaaS, these are

the tools we use to power

Sweeper, includes;

‣ tagging

‣ location

‣ influence

‣ reputation

‣ duplication filter

Free and open source SMS gateway for Android

Mobile

Whitelabeling of Android and iOS apps

Thank Youdwere@ushahidi.com

Skype: d.were

Tel: +254.723.553.287