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Ushahidi.Com goes global

It has been said that good things can come out bad situations. A website founded by a Kenyan to help map out trouble spots during the post-election violence has gone on to become a critical tool for mapping real-time information in elections, crises and natural calamities around the world. Ushahidi.com’s, founder Ory Okolloh is in Nairobi and talked with Larry Madowo about this technological innovation that was not profit driven, and by the way, ushahidi is Swahili for witness.

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