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A crowd-sourced map to help citizens track political violence | Juliana Rotich | TEDxIBYork

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Science & Technology

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When post-election violence hit Kenya in 2008, it was hard for reliable information to get published.  And so Ushahidi was born.  Juliana and the other co-founders of Ushahidi quickly built a system to enable citizens to contribute information from mobile phones and PCs.  Ushahidi compiled the information and published it on the web.  Ushahidi is now available as open source software and has been used in many crisis situations, including the earthquakes in Haiti and Chili, the conflict in Palestine and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Juliana sees Ushahidi as an exemplar of the enormous possibilities for technology to contribute to Africa's development.  As a technologist and an African, she hopes to be part of that process.

Juliana is a TED Fellow.

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