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What is Ushahidi?

We get asked, “What is Ushahidi?” a lot. So, with the help of my friend Jason Hawkins, we’ve created this little video to better explain what Ushahidi is in 2 minutes:

What is Ushahidi? from Ushahidi on Vimeo.

We’ll be putting up more videos on Ushahidi at Vimeo.com/ushahidi

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  1. Hello
    I have just checked that video about Ushahidi and it is really very good to know about Ushahidi from this video.Thank you very much for showing us this video.

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