Response to Kenyan crisis creates new technology to map crises.
Groundbreaking technology has come from Kenya in which cell phones and computer mapping programs are used to chart human rights abuses and health crises.
Ushahidi, which means witness in Swahili, was developed when political/ethnic violence broke out in Kenya following that country's disputed elections in December 2007.
Kenyan blogger Ory Okolloh wrote about the reports of violence coming from all over Kenya. Shortly after she fled from Nairobi due to this violence, Okolloh posted the idea that it would be good to use Google Earth to make a map of where the violent incidents were being reported and she appealed to people on the blogosphere to help her.