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From: alice <alice@apc.org>
To: elizaslider@yahoo.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; erik@zungu.com
Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 7:22:02 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Ushahidi in Haiti

Congratulations Eric. This is fantastic!

alice'

> An inspiring story of Kenyans taking technology to the next level.
>
> You can follow the minute by minute progress of the initiative at the
> Ushahidi situation room here http://sitroom.ushahididev.com/ It might
> interest you to know that Erik Hersman is coordinating all this from
> right here in Nairobi. To be precise, shuttling between his house and
> Java Junction!
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Wamuyu Gatheru
> <wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>    This Ushahidi story has just been reported by CNN
>
>    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    *From:* Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni@gmail.com
>    <mailto:dmuthoni@gmail.com>>
>    *To:* wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk>
>    *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>    <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>>
>    *Sent:* Mon, 18 January, 2010 17:28:58
>
>    *Subject:* [kictanet] Ushahidi in Haiti
>
>    http://haiti.ushahidi.com/
>
>    Ushahidi is an organization that created a free and open source
>    mapping and content management system which can be used by
>    organizations worldwide in crisis-related situations. The main goal
>    of the organization is to create a system that facilitates early
>    warning systems and helps in data visualization for response and
>    recovery. The Ushahidi platform has been used to monitor elections in
>    India, Mexico, Lebanon and Afghanistan. It has been deployed in
>    the DR Congo to track unrest, Zambia to monitor medicine stockouts
>    and the Philippines to track the mobile phone companies.
>
>    It is now being used in the Haiti Earthquake disaster.
>
>    NB: Ushahidi has strong Kenyan roots with a bulk of the Ushahidi
>    Platform developers coming from Kenya and the wider Africa.
>
>    --
>    Muthoni
>
>    My Blog: http://rugongo.blogspot.com/
>    --------------------------------------------
>    Mahatma Gandhi once said:-
>
>    First they ignore you,
>    Then they laugh at you,
>    Then they fight you,
>    AND THEN YOU WIN!!!
>
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