Guest Blog post by Penang Hills Watch (PHW) team, an initiative by the Penang Forum (PF). PHW is an initiative that involves the public in reporting cases of hill clearing, enhancing public awareness and foster cooperation between civil society and the state government in addressing this issue.

Several groups have been activated to coordinate relief efforts in the Peru after deadly rains have caused flooding and massive destruction across the country.

Over the last couple of months after launch, we've been working on providing our users with a step by step guide on how to use the new version of the Ushahidi platform. Today, we are publishing a detailed, detailed user manual that you can download to help you familiarise yourself with featured of the platform. Download it here.

This November, we’re setting aside three weeks of community testing between 4th and 25th November 2015. The goal of this community testing is to help us:-

• Better understand your user needs and problems
• Develop core user experience insights that will drive our front end development and improve your experience using the platform

Last thursday, we hosted our first Ushahidi v3 Community Hangout, which introduced existing and potential users to new features, and major differences between this new platform.

This week, we’re hosting part 1 of a deep dive walkthrough of using some of these new features!