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Twitter comes in handy as Haitians pick up the pieces
US President Barack Obama hits “send” on his first-ever Twitter post during a visit with Red Cross employees to view relief operations for earthquake victims in Haiti, at the Red Cross Disaster Operations Centre in Washington. Reuters
Posted Wednesday, January 20 2010 at 17:42
This initial deployment of Ushahidi had 45,000 users in Kenya, its developers say this was the catalyst for them realising there was a need for the platform on a larger scale.
Volunteer teams
It is now being used in Haiti to map and integrate crowdsourced information that is being used by both people on the ground who need help and those who can provide relief.
Teams of volunteers in Kenya, Uganda and the US have been working to solidify the platform and make this effort work.
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