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One winner in particular, Ory Okolloh, has cultivated a platform specifically designed to technologically aid citizens in the collection of local news. Her site, Ushahidi — Swahili for “testimony” — ...

And an important force behind this upheaval is a small Kenyan-born organization called Ushahidi, which has become a hero of the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes and which may have something larger ...

Within days, two such techies wrote software code for an open-source, Web-based platform that would come to be known as Ushahidi. The name—Swahili for testimony—more or less describes how the ...

Mapping platform Ushahidi reached global prominence when it was used to monitor the 2016 US election by allowing voters to report irregularities. The technology has been used to track war crimes ...

In DC’s Dupont Circle neighborhood, a Web developer turned to Ushahidi (which means “testimony” in Swahili), software first developed amid post-election violence in Kenya to help organize ...

Mapping platform Ushahidi reached global prominence when it was used to monitor the 2016 US election by allowing voters to report irregularities. The technology has been used to track war crimes ...

It took me one day to register a domain “russian-fires.ru,” install the Ushahidi package and get things running. On Monday, I published a post at Habrahabr [RUS], a Russian IT-community website, ...