[Guest Post by Alexis Franke, UNDP in Kosovo. Originally published on the UNDP blog.] Over on the Democracy Spot blog, Tiago Peixoto started a thought-provoking conversation about the impact of websites like I paid a bribe that encourage citizens to … Continue reading
What is corruption mapping? In the past year, we have seen a rise of corruption tracking maps or maps that include tracking corruption as part of their project. A number of our Deployment of the Weeks have been corruption maps. … Continue reading
From Swift days to autumn nights, we have a few tasks for the community, upcoming events and a big congratulations to our corruption mapping Deployment of the week. From the Community: Virtual Day of Swift Beta: Saturday, September 8, 2012 … Continue reading
Since Ushahidi Liberia began over a year ago, our team has been crowdseeding rather than crowdsourcing. This has been the conscious choice of our 20+ partner organizations in-country, who have trusted field reporters and a shared reluctance about involving the … Continue reading
Ken Kasina, of Ushahidi, is talking about a new instance of Ushahidi that has gone up in Nairobi just this last week called Hatari (meaning “danger” in Swahili). The site was set up for anyone in Nairobi to submit reports … Continue reading