With hundreds of crowns for her tech leadership, Kenya's Juliana Rotich has been selected to head global chemical firm BASF office on the East African front. Up until April of this year, she had previously been serving as a member of the firm's Global Sustainability Advisory Council. She has been ...
Kenya’s open source software platform for crowdsourcing, monitoring, visualizing, and emergency response has received a Ksh. 2million ($194 000) grant from Mozilla. Ushahidi caters to people who are caught up in political turmoil or are subject to governmental or vigilante abuse. The Kenyan powerhouse is currently working on ways to ...
Image credits: dailymail.co.uk Ushahidi.com was launched by a group of volunteers to map post election violence after Kenya's disputed general election in December 2007. Ten years later, Resquebnb has launched to connect stranded Kenyans to food and shelter after election-related violence claimed over 20 lives leaving ...
The crowdsourcing technology company Ushahidi has partnered with Facebook, InfoNET and The Constitution & Reform Education Consortium (CRECO) to monitor Kenya’s General Election on August 8, 2017. Using its Uchaguzi platform, Ushahidi will monitor incidences of electoral offences, violence, peace activities and to inform Kenyans on how their counties and ...
Companies are expected to take swift action when an employee accuses a top executive of sexual harassment. This is a serious allegation. But for Ushahidi, their response was quite slow, reluctant and laggard as there were claims and reports that they were protecting an Executive Director accused of sexual harassment even though they later ...
Old and forgotten Internet archives from Mashada, a web forum run by David Kobia, an Ushahidi co-founder and board member show what could have been a bitter exchange between an unamed Kenyan female blogger and the accused executive accusing him of indecent advances. The lady insisted that she didn't want ...
Ushahidi has today launched iOS and Android apps aimed at bolstering is mission to empower anyone to gather reports from anywhere, anytime. With support for offline data collection -- including videos and photos, the firm says the apps will help people quickly complete surveys from their smartphone in any location, ...
Kenya's BRCK has launched SupaBRCK,a connected rugged microserver powered by a dual core Intel 64-BIT processor with a up to 5TB of hard drive space and a 10-hour onboard battery life. SupaBRCK also comes with 3 SIM card slots for 4G LTE and 3G connectivity and a content delivery network ...
Kenya’s Ushahidi has launched a platform to monitor the ongoing US presidential elections pitting Hillary Clinton of the Democratic party and controversial businessman Donald Trump from the Republican party as the main actors. This comes against the backdrop of unprecedented conversation in the 2016 USA election concerning the voting ...
Kenya's BRCK, an internet generator for remote areas has been named among the top Education finalists battling to win $1 million and work with Verizon to turn their idea into a reality. BRCK, aims to allow teachers and students access the web in the classroom regardless of their location, internet ...
Forget Ello, now available in 15 languages and working with a variety of global SMS providers like Nexmo, Twilio, Clickatell, among others, Ushahidi's Ping.io has today launched in private alpha to open doors to businesses, municipalities, and organizations to create a tool that meets their real needs. Ping will help users ...
Kenya's Erik Hersman, co-founder of iHub, Ushahidi and BRCK with the entire iHub team and community will soon launch Gearbox, a hub for developers in Kenya to learn hardware and build things. Gearbox will be a "makerspace", a huge room full of equipment that allows members to do rapid prototyping ...
HarassMap is a volunteer-based initiative mapping sexual harassment in Egypt to end it. The independent initiative uses SMS and web platforms to reach the country's population to fight sexual harassment. Founded in 2005 by Rebecca Chiao with an MA in International Development and International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of ...
