promise to post better photos in a short while, want to donate a good camera to me? :)

Today I am privilaged to be sitted with a big group of volunteers (Crowd Sourcing) who are working with the uchaguzi platform to monitor electrol offences live, as the electrol process goes on around the country – Kenya.

What is Uchaguzi, (Swahili word for “choose”) this is a modified platform of the the ushahidi software, mmmmh… complicated? Ok, Ushahidi (Swahili word for ” testimony”) is a software developed after the 2008 post election violence that rocked Kenya by a team lead by Eric Hersman.

What does the software do? “it  provides a web and mobile-based channels for citizens and civil society to report on electoral offences such as intimidation, hate speech, vote buying, polling clerk bias, voting mis-information etc.  The reports are then sent to the electoral authorities or security personnel for action”

This software developed in Kenya is being used world wide now, to monitor the oil spill, reports on the Haiti earthquake, china floods. so two new topics coming up soon, 1. is what is crowd sourcing and more on Ushahidi.

Click here to see the website www.uchaguzi.co.ke , see the photos and reports that have been generated by the crowd at Ihub and around the country.