Ushahidi is a non-profit software company that is revolutionizing the way governments and international organizations respond to unrest, crises and humanitarian disasters: it uses mobile technology and social media to let citizens report and visualize, using interactive maps, what goes on around them first-hand. This past year it has been employed by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to “crisis-map” Libya, and will now be used to monitor elections in Liberia.