Inform Decisions &
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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.

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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 worldwide
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

Platforms & Benefits

Holistic data gathering platform & 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.

How it Works

Gather, Manage, Analyze, Act

Gather
Crowdsource information and reports from anyone and anywhere
- Multiple sources
  Supports submission via email, Twitter, web, SMS & more
- Flexible SMS support
  Integrate with an SMS gateway, platform or SMS sync
- Custom surveys and data collection
  Design your surveys to gather the exact information you seek, in the correct format
- iOS and Android-compatible
  Native applications for submission & review
Manage
Review and organize submissions to inform your work
- Filters and saved search
  Retrieve the right data with filters and save your search to pick up where you left off
- Workflows
  Build pathways and flows for data to approve and respond more effectively
- Collections
  Group submissions and data sets to stay organized
- Collaboration
  Work together to manage data with multiple user roles and permissions
- Alerts
  Configure email and SMS notifications for data submissions, deployment updates and more
Analyze
Map crowdsourced data to analyze and act
- Flexible mapping
  Support for street or satellite views through integrations with Open Street Map and Mapbox
- Charts, graphs & more
  Multiple data visualization options in charts, graphs, timelines and more
- Sort & visualize by data source
  Configure custom maps and charts per data source or stream
Act
Utilize Platform features to respond, inform decisions and act
- Exports via CSV for further analysis
  Incorporate exported data into other analysis tools
- HDX integration
  Assimilation into open data to benefit others

Enterprise & custom deployments

Ushahidi can build and scale custom deployments to fit the needs of your organization.

Private, internal-only 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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