Weekly: Uchaguzi Hangout, Code of Conduct & Testing 2.7
Happy Week! We are a mission to share best practices and co-create a Code of Conduct. Plus, we have two Deployments of the Week from Venezuela. The biggest Ushahidi news this week is that we are in...
View ArticleUmati Google Hangout: Monitoring Dangerous Speech
Ushahidi is excited to invite you to join an Umati Research – Monitoring Dangerous Speech Hangout. This is the first in a series of research-focused Google Hangouts. Join the Umati Google Hangout Date:...
View ArticleIn your own words
Your map, your language. It is our mission to localize and translate Ushahidi with our community into your language of choice. We know that having a map in the local language increases accessibility...
View ArticleThe Everyday Peacemakers on our Streets
[This post originally appeared on the Respublica blog, a UK-based thinktank. Guest blog post by Catherine Dempsey, PhD candidate at King's College London, researching innovative uses of technology in...
View ArticleUchaguzi Monitoring And Evaluation Final Report Released
[Guest post by Rhoda Omenya, iHub Research. Rhoda lead the Uchaguzi Monitoring and Evaluation project. Cross-posted from the ihub blog.] iHub Research conducted a 6-month assessment of the Kenya 2013...
View ArticlePreparing for the Cameroon Elections / La préparation des élections au Cameroun
[Guest post by Jean Brice in English and French. He is preparing for the upcoming Cameroon Elections. Jean Brice previously joined the Uchaguzi Kenyan Elections team to learn how to do a full Ushahidi...
View Article3Vs Crowdsourcing Framework for Elections launched
[Guest post cross-posted from Ihub Research. About the author: Angela Crandall studies the uptake and increasing utility of ICTs in East Africa from a user’s perspective. Angela is currently a Research...
View ArticleWeekly: Reevo Maps, Micromappers and Cameroon Election Help!
Deployment of the week This week, we recognise the efforts of the Reevo team to build a virtual platform that reflects diverse and multiple alternative education initiatives worldwide. Cameroon...
View ArticleUshahidi via USSD
The mobile phone has been at the core of Ushahidi’s strategy when building tools for citizen engagement. Its ubiquitous nature makes it the easiest tool to use and ensure that a vast majority of...
View ArticleUchaguzi Data Clean Up
Data cleansing, data cleaning or data scrubbing is the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database. Used mainly in databases,...
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