Ushahidi - Crowdsourcing Crisis Information

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Ushahidi, Inc., Orlando, Fla.

$2,000 Special Distinction Award

From the Judges: “This site is a perfect example of just how far-reaching and important citizen journalism can be.”

A handful of Kenyan techies launched a site for bloggers and citizen journalists to report, document and map incidents of political violence following an apparently stolen presidential election. Eventually 130 people uploaded incident reports. The site modeled grassroots information-sharing in a time of crisis and censorship.

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