2013-04-23

Did the Kenyan Elections Really Need 3 Maps, 7 Phone Numbers, and Several Web Forms?


We all knew it. We saw this coming in Haiti and talked about it in Egypt, when 5 Ushahidi maps popped out the day before the elections. But the Kenyan elections are somehow different, and the reason why they are, is that the possible outcome is indeed a civil unrest that could bring the country years back to 2007.
It was recently election day in Kenya, and a lot of organizations prepared for that day by setting up their own branded, advertised, funded and public electoral monitoring system.

Read more at: http://www.ictworks.org/news/2013/04/22/did-the-kenyan-elections-really-need-3-maps-7-phone-numbers-and-several-web-forms/