dub3 card · www.ushahidi.com
Ushahidi (2008)
Text messages from eyewitnesses, pinned to a map as events unfold.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
On reveal: A random card in your hand costs 2 less.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 2008
A crowdsourced crisis map that plotted eyewitness reports, sent by text message or email, onto an online map.
Kenyan bloggers and developers including Ory Okolloh, Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich and David Kobia built it in days after the disputed 2007 election. Its free software was later used after the 2010 Haiti earthquake and to monitor elections.
In 2008: Went online in early January to map reports of violence in Kenya; by May the same software was tracking attacks on migrants in South Africa.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2008 page.
Put it on your site
Run Ushahidi, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2008, then plays a short scene. Want Ushahidi in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
