Ushahidi gets a timeline feature

A little while back, I wrote Ushahidi, a social media and Google maps mashup created by a team of Kenyan bloggers and tech types who are giving everyday people the means to document and follow the incidents of violence occurring daily in Kenya since the elections. This mashup blends cellular technology with Web 2.0 thinking and brings the best of citizen media to bear on a situation that is increasingly getting too desperate to fathom.

And now Ushahidi is even better.

Erik Hersman of White African is one of the minds behind the project and has reported that the web application now features a timeline. This will enable users to see not only where the violence is happening, but how the violence has progressed over the past few weeks. It is a feature that will add a historical dimension to what has hereto been a mainly geographic application.

Going Global

The team is thinking also thinking of taking the project global and allowing people in other regions to make use of this application. I think this is great news, particularly because I was calling for this a while back.

This is definitely something Citizen Uganda will support.