Welcome to Ushahidi, which means “testimony†in Swahili, where we are building a platform that crowdsources crisis information. Allowing anyone to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.
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The ubiquitous access to mobile phones, and the ease of sending SMSes, has dramatically democratized citizen reporting. In a recent post on the digital news life cycle, I argued that “from this moment onwards, every accident worth reporting, anywhere in
