Ushahidi Deploys in DRC - mobile number to send SMS reports to is +243992592111

The DRC deployment can be found at http://DRC.ushahidi.com, and the mobile number to send SMS reports to is +243992592111. From Ken Banks via the mobileactive mailing list: Some of you might be interested to know that Erik Hersman and his team have just deployed an instance of Ushahidi (http://www.ushahidi.com) to help report on the DRC crisis.

You can read more on the Ushahidi blog here:

http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/11/07/ushahidi-deploys-to-the-congo-drc/

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.