Kenyan tech bloggers launch crisis-report site
A week ago, Africa tech blogger Erik Hersman read a post by Kenyan tech and human rights blogger Ory Okolloh calling for a web application to track incidents of violence and areas of need during the post-election turmoil in Kenya.
Within a few days, Hersman had organized Okolloh and a couple of like-minded developers in the U.S. and Kenya to make the idea a reality. The result is Ushahidi.com (Ushahidi means “witness” or “evidence” in Swahili).
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