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LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili. So much innovation.

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