The Ushahidi Platform helps communities turn information into action with an intuitive and accessible crowdsourcing and mapping tool. By enabling the rapid collection, management and analysis of crowdsourced information, Ushahidi empowers everyone—individuals, community groups, governments, activists, organizations—to create meaningful change.
The Platform has become an essential tool in addressing social, political and public health challenges and fostering meaningful change, including:
- Relief efforts following earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal
- Supporting COVID-19 response and recovery
- Ensuring fair elections in the US, Kenya and Nigeria
- Monitoring and reporting corruption in Indonesia
- Documenting police brutality in Portland during Black Lives Matter protests
- Helping women address sexual violence in Egypt
- And more…
Platform Benefits
Holistic data gathering platform and integrated tools:
The Ushahidi Platform brings together multiple data-gathering tools and services to save time and simplify processes, allowing users to focus on their goals and objectives rather than the tools that help them achieve them.
Accessible, easy-to-use and open-source:
Our Platform is intended to be used by anyone, anywhere, and is flexibly built using a mobile-first approach to ensure device and network compatibility around the world. We also make our tools open-source in the spirit of improving technology accessibility and affordability to all.
Available globally in dozens of languages
With deployments in more than 160 countries and over 40 languages, the Ushahidi Platform provides value and helps communities achieve solutions around the world.
Dedicated support and expertise:
Our team is committed to helping users and their deployments succeed and offers strategic support and training to help users meet their goals.
Data collection
Gather submissions from anyone, anytime, anywhere
- Multiple sources
- Receive reports from many sources, SMS, email, and Twitter
- SMS submissions
- Collect posts via SMS when you connect with an SMS gateway or SMSsync
- Custom surveys
- Bring together multiple data types with custom forms
- iOS & Android
- Submit reports and view maps from our mobile apps.
Data management
Manage and triage reports with filters and workflows
- Filters & Saved Searches
- Retrieve the right data with filters and save your search to pick up where you left off
- Workflows
- Send your posts through multiple stages so you can respond effectively
- Collections
- Keep your data manageable by grouping data sets into collections
- Team collaboration
- Work together with multiple user roles to make sure everyone sees only what they need
Data visualization
Map submissions and chart what happened
- Multiple maps
- Map tiles including street and satellite provided by Open Street Maps, MapQuest, and more
- Data sources
- Map and visualize data streams from third parties like Twitter, Twillio, SMSSync, Nexmo, FrontlineSMS, and email
- Configurable charts
- Chart your work with configurable bar and timelines views
Automatic alerts
Receive alerts about changes and updates
- Email notification
- Create custom alerts to see when a post is added or updated
- SMS alerts
- Mobile alerts about urgent changes to your deployment
Enterprise systems
Let our team help you build and scale your deployment
- Private deployments
- Make your deployment private so only your internal organization or community can see it
- Custom user roles
- Setup user roles with only the features that your team needs to use
- Support & hosting
- Get a private secure hosting environment and direct support from our team of expert deployers
- Setup & migration
- We can setup your deployment and migrate existing data
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