I’m cribbing notes from Rising Voice‘s David Sasaki who wrote an excellent roundup of how the Web is a tool for Kenyan activists to document the current crisis.

Ushahidi is an organization that is combining SMS alerts of Kenyan violence with google maps that gives a timeline of civil incidents but also a way to map the state of the conflict in real time. You can view the timeline here.

And here a post of the potential of twitter in Africa.

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