Ushahidi launched version 3 of the Ushahidi platform in October 2015. This was a huge improvement to the platform, making it ready for scale and implementing many features that our community has asked for, including custom forms, filters, work flow management, and data visualization. At that time we also launched a new business model, software as a service. We sell more complex versions of the software on the cloud hosted version, allowing users to use the most up to date version of the software immediately, without having to load it onto their own servers. Over the past 6 months we have been doing in depth user research and improving the front end of the site. We will be launching these new user interface updates in May. In 2015, we brought in over $800,000 in earned revenue, cover 30% of our overhead. Over the next 3 years we are looking to grow our earned revenue to cover 80% of our overhead. To do so we need roughly $4M more in grant funding.
We currently have 100,000 deployments in over 160 countries in 48 local languages. These deployments run the gamit of use cases, but predominately fall into a handful of categories such as crisis repsonse, human rights reporting, transparency, data collection and research, monitoring and evaluation, and environmental mapping. Some of our favorite deployments are quakemap.org, harassmap.org, safecity.in, syriatracker.crowdmap.com, http://www.zabatak.com/, stopstockouts.com, ke2013.ushahidi.com, and many others.
1) Uchaguzi a Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of ICTs, Statebuilding, and Peacebuilding in Kenya

• Publication: ICTs, Statebuilding, and Peacebuilding in Eastern Africa
• Authors: Warigia Bowman, Bob Bell, Wambui Ngugi, Wainaina Mungai, Grace Githaiga, and Paola Cavallari.
• Year: February 27th, 2015
• Paper Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/twjl6ub6k6amh0c/Uchaguzi-Report_Working-Paper.pdf?dl=0
• Link to Deployment: http://ke2013.uchaguzi.org/
• Methodology: Conducted a short survey to assess citizens’ familiarity with Uchaguzi, reaching a total of 446 people and covering most regions in Kenya.
• High Level Impact Finding: Of the (8000) respondents who reported an incident using Uchaguzi, nearly three quarters (of those interviewed in this report who had reported) said that the incident reported was resolved.

2) Towards a Safer City: Sexual Harassment in Greater Cairo - Effectiveness of Crowdsourced Data

• Title: Harassmap, Youth and Development Consultancy Institute.
• Author: Supported by International Development Research Center (IDRC).
• Year: 2014
• Report Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8my9nuexnxb8dfp/Towards-A-Safer-City_full-report_EN-.pdf?dl=0
• Deployment Link: www.harassmap.org
• Methodology: Compare the Harassmap data with a quantitative analysis of the data collected based on 450 questionnaires (300 complete by women and 150 by men) distributed evenly between six administrative units of Greater Cairo and a qualitative analysis of the data collected based on 48 (30 female and 18 male) focus group discussions (FGDs) conducted. The FGD provided an open forum for participants to discuss sexual harassment, giving the researchers insight into how they perceive the phenomenon. Thematic analysis and qualitative case-oriented open coding were employed to study the data.
• High Level Impact Finding: The Ushahidi Map is an effective tool for data collection for sensitive issues, encouraging more participation and sometimes more truthful reports than other typical data collection means.

3) Crowdsourcing Accountability in a Nigerian Election

• Publication: Journal of Information Technology & Politics
• Authors: Catie Snow Bailard & Steven Livingston
• Date: Accepted author version posted online: 23 Jul 2014.Published online: 20 Oct 2014.
• Report Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5b5xeiotnvk8wf9/Crowdsourcing%20Accountability%2C%20Bailard%26Livingston%20%281%29.pdf?dl=0
• Deployment link: http://www.reclaimnaija.net/
• High Level Impact Finding: The Ushahidi election monitoring deployment increased voter turnout in the 2011 Nigerian election by 8%.