. >> where you when you founded ushahidi? >> a blog 0 lot about kenyan politics. the transition into the violent, and i found myself reporting what was going on. i opened up my blog for comments, as a knowledge getting hundreds of comments. >> how to people find you? >> a lot of people, a lot of journalists using the suit spread reports to the media. i one person in an apartment with no advertising, if i could have access to this kind of information, what else can be out there? what else are we missing about what is going on? that is our group of us got together and how it was born. one of the first critical decisions we took, when we started in kenya we did not really know what we were doing. it was just ideas to get people telling their stories and sort of witnessing. once we realize there is a lot of interest in this, then the public violence broke out in south ever go few months later and they wanted to use our code to cover the violence going on in south africa. the next time there is a crisis, we would not have to build it from scratch. the elections in indi