Ushahidi: Mapping to Create New Narratives

“Ushahidi”, which means “testimony” in Swahili, was a platform initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008.  This platform is a free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

Since its creation, Ushahidi has been used for very different purposes  (monitor elections, war reports, to map incidents of violence and peace efforts, to map xenophobic incidents, etc.) globally and locally (India, South Africa, Kenya, Palestine, etc.)...