practiceActive

Ushahidi platform

📍 Kenya · 2008–presente · Ushahidi

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

Open-source platform to crowdsource and map citizen reports during crises and elections.

Lessons learned

Open platform reused in ~160 countries; the recurring challenge is verification and the noise of crowdsourced data.

Lineage

Linked evidence

Open Source for Humanitarian ActionStanford Social Innovation Review · 2011Evidence