The best tools are always created out of necessity, and the technology era has done nothing but speed up that process. A new mesh of technologies called Ushahidi, which means witness in Swahili, is bettering lives by allowing users to map evidence of human rights abuses, violent happenings, spread of disease and much more. A Global Post Article explains the free service in more detail:
Ushahidi is a simple, free and open-source web-based platform that allows “witnesses” to map evidence of human rights abuses. Observers can provide information by posting reports of events directly onto the website or by emailing them. Witnesses can also map events via text message thanks to FrontlineSMS, a text messaging platform built into Ushahidi. People with smart phones can also download a range of free Ushahidi apps to map alerts.
This is another example of how technology is making it harder and harder for wrongdoers to hide their activities, and for activists to engage in better crisis management.
The BCM Blogging Team
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