Ushahidi, a non-profit technology company started in Africa, specializes in developing free and open-source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. It seeks to build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. It started as an ad hoc group trying to work out a way to gather more and better information about the post-election violence in Kenya in January 2008. Since then, it has gone open source and is now being deployed all over the world.
Effective leadership in a world reshaped by AI, geopolitical uncertainty, and climate pressures demands dialogue and collaboration as essential tools
Unequal access to technology erodes civic participation and poses threats to human rights. We need to democratize the sector so nobody is left behind.
