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Originally Posted by Luoliability
DAILY NATION - When necessity invented global SoS
That was a Thursday. On Friday, Erik described Ms Okolloh’s idea to David Kobia, a Kenyan software developer living in the US state of Alabama.
Erik and David had never met, but they knew each other online. By Saturday, they had assembled a prototype of the website. On Tuesday, the site was live and ready for use.
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The three persons you mentioned played a role. The idea was Okolloh's. I am not sure how much Ushahidi accomplished, though. First it came too late in the game and secondly, anything that the website sought to do was already being done in web forums and newspaper websites. I simply did not see anything novel in their idea.