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projectActive · national · 2008–presente

Ushahidi platform

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

Aerial view of a plaza with trees, benches and surrounding buildingsillustrative atlas image · Nerea Marti Sesarino / Unsplash
UUshahidingo
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01 How it works

02 What it stands on

Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
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The evidence 1
EvidenceOpen Source for Humanitarian ActionStanford Social Innovation Review · 2011

03 Lessons learned

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

04 Lineage

05 Go to the source

Visit the official site ushahidi.com