Ushahidi

ushahidi.com

Ushahidi started as an ad-hoc group of Kenyan bloggers hammering out code in a couple of days from various locations, trying to figure out a way to gather more and better information about the 2008 post-election violence in Kenya. Ushahidi's mission is to build and use technology to help marginalized people raise their voice, and those who serve them to listen and respond better. Ushahidi is a non-profit technology company that builds open source platforms to help citizens, journalists, organizations, governments, and others collect, manage, visualize, and respond to crowdsourced data. Our tools have been used by tens of thousands of individuals and organizations fighting for social causes in over 160 countries — whether for monitoring corruption in Zimbabwe, gathering real-time data on local poverty issues, or giving people a voice in the Syrian crisis. Everyone at Ushahidi comes to work here because we know that every day people around the world use the tools we build to improve the lives of millions. In other words, in the fight for a better world, we aren’t 007, we’re Q. Our team tends to think big and rewards creativity and an entrepreneurial attitude. Over the past seven years, we have also built the iHub – the tech community hub in Nairobi, the BRCK – a redesign of connectivity for the developing world, and other projects like Savannah Fund, AfriLabs, and Crisis Mappers. Our ethos – we don’t just build products, we solve problems.