Documenting human rights abuses

From TTC: Mobile Advocacy Toolkit Working Meeting wiki

Ushahidi.com is a website that was used to monitor and document violence in Kenya after riots broke out in December 2007. The riots erupted across Kenya after the unpopular sitting president Mwai Kibaki was sworn into power following an election in December 2007 that was widely seen as rigged.

Anyone can report incidents of violence that they have witnessed by sending an SMS to a short code messaging service number. This is then verified by a local NGO and presented on a map of Kenya. Various categories of abuse such as incidents of riots, looting, deaths, property loss, rape etc. are monitored and documented.