Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. Its team had figured out a way for people in a crisis area to send SMS information (text messages) from their cell phones or computers to report an outbreak of catastrophic conditions.

Benefit 36

Benefit Public Develop Tools 36

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Check out the same area we saw above using the Map Kibera map.

Tools 73

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Check out the same area we saw above using the Map Kibera map.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59