# Ushahidi’s Kenya crisis map

> Kenyan bloggers turned eyewitness reports into a map that other crisis teams could reuse.

- Owner: Ushahidi
- Kind: App & software
- Sector: Politics & civic
- Seed date: 2008-01-03
- Milestone date: 2008-01-09
- Date basis: Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak.
- Spread Score: 48 (Notable, provisional), v1.2
- Mechanics: Shareable output, Platform jump

## Summary

A January 2008 blog appeal brought volunteers together to map Kenya’s post-election crisis. Ory Okolloh reported more than 250 early contributors. The team then rebuilt the tool for reuse; by May 2009, two dozen organizations had deployed the alpha.

## Timeline

- 2008-01-03 — Ory Okolloh (Open web) — Ory Okolloh asked Kenyan technologists to help map reports of post-election violence.
- 2008-01-09 — Milestone: Ushahidi volunteers (Open web) — Volunteers launched the Kenya crisis map, accepting public reports from the web and mobile phones.
- Oct 2008 — Ushahidi (Open web) — The rebuilt software entered alpha testing for reuse beyond the original Kenya map.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/developers).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/ushahidi-kenya-crisis-map

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Ushahidi’s Kenya crisis map.” Case HIS-01109. Spread Score v1.2: 48/100. Updated 2026-10-17. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-01109