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In Kenya, Ushahidi hopes to save lives by ‘crowdsourcing’ crisis info

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What if people living in conflict zones could predict where violence was going to break out? Kenyan developers are about to launch a new version of the software that will help communities around the world map and predict violence.

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Kenya bloggers monitor unrest

Post-election unrest in Kenya has been widespread and hard to monitor in real time, but some concerned bloggers are trying to help, and they’ve set up a website where Kenyans can report on what they see in their own communities

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