Ushahidi Chile

• Grantee

  Ushahidi

• Location

  United States and Chile

• Total support

  $10,000

• Year

  2010

• Focus Area

  Free Culture & Community

In a crisis environment, maintaining lines of communication is critically important. Ushahidi developed an open source platform that enables citizen reporting in crisis situations. A deadly earthquake struck Chile on February 27, 2010, cutting off many vulnerable people from traditional sources of information. Mozilla awarded a grant to enable Ushahidi volunteers to train Chilean civilians and government officials to utilize the Ushahidi platform during the relief effort.

See the final grant report for more details.

Read more at:

• http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/03/15/mozilla-foundation-supports-ushahidi-chile/