Case Study: Ushahidi improves data management and election monitoring with Dataminr AI

Ushahidi Creates New AI Models With Dataminr to Improve Data Management

Ushahidi, a global not-for-profit technology organization founded in Kenya, needed a better way to process, classify, and identify trends in large volumes of election-related citizen reports. By partnering with Dataminr through its AI for Good program and using the Uchaguzi platform, Ushahidi aimed to reduce the manual, labor-intensive work involved in managing public data.

Dataminr developed three AI models for Ushahidi that improved data categorization and automated form assignment, geolocation accuracy, and multilingual parsing for English and Swahili. As a result, Ushahidi significantly reduced manual data work, increased capacity, and cut processing time from days with many volunteers to just hours, helping the organization scale Uchaguzi and focus more on turning data into actionable insights.

Ushahidi

Angela Oduor Lungati

Executive Director