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This is one of the participatory -- one of the participatory models we see coming out of that along with Ushahidi.

During the last big blizzard in New York, an Ushahidi map popped up on my screen to record street blockages.

Anyone who needed or wanted it, but the Ushahidi team hoped, in particular, that the humanitarian community would use the map as a guide.

Brian: Ushahidi is a platform that allows anyone to crowdsource crisis information, or crowdsource anything really, using a mobile phone.

Because Kenya is poor, with computers out of reach for many, Ushahidi made its system work on cellphones.

Ms Okolloh has since founded an organisation called Ushahidi, which puts her original idea into practice in various parts of the world.

If further information is required, then one can reply to the sender of the text message directly from the Ushahidi platform.

The team helped translate the Ushahidi platform into Spanish, making it easier for other Latin American teams to organize a similar effort.

Text-messaging's revolutionary impact is best illustrated by Ushahidi. It's an online platform for sharing crisis information in real time.

With every new application, Ushahidi is quietly transforming the notion of bearing witness in tragedy.

Technology whizzes saw her post and built the Ushahidi Web platform over a long weekend.

Soon after Ushahidi came online, Kobia was contacted by NetSquared, a nonprofit that promotes the Web as a vehicle for social change.

Ushahidi, founded by a group of activists in Kenya, is among its pioneers.

The translated messages then appear directly on the Ushahidi platform.

Ushahidi also represents a new frontier of innovation.

Ushahidi suggests a new paradigm in humanitarian work.

This can be done directly from the Ushahidi platform by entering the street address or town name.

Ushahidi, by contrast, is civic value.

So not only was Ushahidi crowdsourcing crisis information in near real-time but also crowdsourcing translation in near real-time.

And in 72 hours, they launched Ushahidi.

This is the first formal project of Ushahidi in Latin America.

So before I talk about what is, I think, the critical difference between LOLcats and Ushahidi, I want to talk about their shared source.

For a bird's eye view of operations, go to the Ushahidi site.

I will focus primarily on the way that Ushahidi used 4636.

and none more or so than Ushahidi which means witness in Swahili,