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.

One such deployment of the Ushahidi platform was used to monitor Indian elections from March to May of ‘09. Let’s take a closer look at just what Ushahidi allowed its users to do, and the role the software had in participatory voter monitoring.

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