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PHP Developers for Ushahidi (Volunteers Needed!)
at Ushahidi, Inc in Anywhere in Africa
We’re constantly looking for great PHP developers who can help us build the best software around for crisis and disaster information. Ushahidi was born in Kenya during the post-election fallout in January 2008. We’re a small team of dedicated software developers, bloggers and designers working to make an engine that can be used anywhere in the world to gather information from ordinary people.
Find out more about us at www.ushahidi.com
Be a part of the African technology revolution, let’s show the world what we can do!
Introduction and History
Ushahidi, which means ‘‘testimony’‘ in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi’s roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis.
The new Ushahidi Engine is being created to use the lessons learned from Kenya to create a platform that allows anyone around the world to set up their own way to gather reports by mobile phone, email and the web – and map them. It is being built so that it can grow with the changing environment of the web, and to work with other websites and online tools.
Our goal is to create a platform that any person or organization can use to set up their own way to collect and visualize information. The core platform will allow for plug-in and extensions so that it can be customized for different locales and needs. This tool will be tested and made available as an open source application that others can download, implement and use to bring awareness to crises in their own region. Organizations can also use the tool for internal monitoring purposes.
The core engine is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. It is being developed by a group of volunteer developers and designers, hailing primarily from Africa. So far there are representatives from Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana, Netherlands and the US.
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