Ushahidi today announced that its board of directors has appointed three new members, effective September 19th. The new directors are Clay Shirky, David Kobia and Erik Hersman.
(The other day I talked about how we think of ourselves as Ushahidi and how we think of success in our world. It’s part one two posts that sets up the context for this post, which is about where we’re going next as an organization and with our platform.)
I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Patrick Meier for the past 3 years directly as one of the core Ushahidi team members. He’s become a close friend, and someone that I respect even more than when we first met.
Every once in a while I get to write a blog post smiling the whole time. This is one of them, because I’m updating our community on the addition of three incredibly talented individuals to the Ushahidi core team.
Today we are introducing you to the latest person to join the Ushahidi team. Evan Sims (@evansims) comes to us as a Senior Developer, helping to improve scalability, performance and reliability of our Crowdmap service. We are super excited to see what he can do with the platform!
Agence France-Presse visited Ushahidi Liberia’s office during the recent presidential elections to learn how the electoral process, and conflict across the country, was being mapped by partner organizations on the ground. Check out this AFP video for more:
