About Ushahidi Crisis Map
Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili. In January 2008, days into Kenya's post-election violence, a handful of Kenyan bloggers and developers put up a page where anyone with a phone could text a report onto a public map.
This system recreates that first build: a white browser ground, a fixed 800px table, a hand-painted flag banner, and small Verdana copy split between red incident pins and green peace pins. It values the reports over the frame around them.
- Origin
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Era
- January–February 2008 (original ushahidi.com launch build)
- Key figures
- Ory Okolloh · Erik Hersman · Juliana Rotich · David Kobia
- Movements
- crisis mapping · SMS-based citizen reporting · open-source civic tech
Ushahidi Crisis Map design spec
Colors
Typography
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