Ushahidi

Ushahidi is a global not-for-profit technology company that develops integrated tools and services to enable people to generate solutions and mobilize communities for good. They build open-source software with the intent of strengthening communities and improving lives, empowering users to rapidly and purposefully gather, analyze, respond, and act on data and information.

Since its founding in 2008 as a tool to monitor and map post-election violence in Kenya, Ushahidi’s crowdsourcing tools have been used by thousands of groups and millions of people to raise voices, inform decisions, stop suffering, and influence change.