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
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
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