Its been 4 years since the first Ushahidi manual was announced and released. Anahi Ayala Iacucci,Senior Innovation Advisor for the Internews Center for Innovation & Learning, who’s worked on several Ushahidi deployments, did an amazing job of taking the initiative to provide Ushahidi users a step by step guide on how to use the platform through this document. It has served as the basis for a lot of the training work I have done in the past.
Alot has changed on the Ushahidi platform since the year 2011, and we’ve tried our best to make sure this is documented on our wiki. However, we recognise the need of having all this information aggregated into one single document, which is a big reason why the Ushahidi manual was written in the first place.
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I took some time in the last month to update and adapt this manual based on content provided from the first version of the by Anahi(to whom we are extremely grateful), the Ushahidi Wiki, and provide new content from features that were previously undocumented for Ushahidi version 2.7.4, with the help of the Ushahidi team.
Download it here.
Much like the first version, this manual contains the following sections:-
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I took some time in the last month to update and adapt this manual based on content provided from the first version of the by Anahi(to whom we are extremely grateful), the Ushahidi Wiki, and provide new content from features that were previously undocumented for Ushahidi version 2.7.4, with the help of the Ushahidi team.
Download it here.
Much like the first version, this manual contains the following sections:-
- An installation guide, as well as instructions on how to use Crowdmap Classic
- Customizing your deployment - Guiding you on how to modify settings etc
- Processing the Incoming information: Guiding you on how to manage messages and reports
- The User Interface: Guiding you on how to use the front end of your deployment