Ushahidi

Business type

Crowdsource

Service/product description

The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.

What does 'openness' mean in this case?

Ushahidi is a free and open source project with developers hailing from Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Malawi, Netherlands and the USA working on it. They respond very quickly to worldwide crisis & disaster situations using and sharing their platform and by crowdsourcing people worldwide to assist in the effort.