Kuhonga’s Anti-Corruption Strategy In Kenya

We’ve seen a rise in anti-corruption mapping. In the past few months, we’ve featured projects from Kosovo, Zimbabwe and even provided global overviews. We’ve had the honour to join Transparency International at the Anti-Corruption Conference which our community leaders from Morocco and Macedonia presented alongside Nathan Wangusi of Kuhonga. Today we are proud to share Kuhonga‘s journey, because it is both a global story and a Kenyan story. How can we crush corruption? Can maps and data tools help activists on their mission to affect change? Simply put: Projects like Kuhonga need your support...

Kuhonga is an implementation of Ushahidi that incorporated in January of 2012. The organization is the brainchild of Nathan Wangusi an environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida.

Kuhonga’s essential insight is that crisis mapping and crowd-sourcing of data can be used to tackle the slow-motion crisis of endemic corruption. Social media has proven integral to revolutions in the Middle East and social movements like the Occupy movement in the United States. Kuhonga hopes to extend the success of social media by using Ushahidi’s crowdsourcing capabilities to tackle a different sort of social problem. Rather than facilitating a short term social need, such as organizational support for a social movement or a disaster response team, Kuhonga hopes that a simple and efficient means of reporting corruption can also lead to social change through institutional reform...