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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, 18 January, 2010 17:28:58<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [kictanet] Ushahidi in Haiti<BR></FONT><BR><A href="http://haiti.ushahidi.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://haiti.ushahidi.com/</A><BR><BR>Ushahidi is an organization that created a free and open source mapping and content management system which can be used by organizations worldwide in crisis-related situations. The main goal<BR>of the organization is to create a system that facilitates early warning systems and helps in data visualization for response and recovery. The Ushahidi platform has been used to monitor
elections in<BR>India, Mexico, Lebanon and Afghanistan. It has been deployed in the DR Congo to track unrest, Zambia to monitor medicine stockouts and the Philippines to track the mobile phone companies.<BR><BR>It is now being used in the Haiti Earthquake disaster. <BR><BR>NB: Ushahidi has strong Kenyan roots with a bulk of the Ushahidi Platform developers coming from Kenya and the wider Africa. <BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Muthoni<BR><BR>My Blog: <A href="http://rugongo.blogspot.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://rugongo.blogspot.com/</A><BR>--------------------------------------------<BR>Mahatma Gandhi once said:-<BR><BR>First they ignore you,<BR>Then they laugh at you,<BR>Then they fight you,<BR>AND THEN YOU WIN!!!<BR></DIV></DIV><!-- cg16.c41.mail.ird.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Fri Jan 15 05:02:45 PST 2010 --></div><br>
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