24 January 2012

Stories from 24 January 2012

Somalia Speaks: Amplifying Unheard Somalian Voices

  24 January 2012

Somalia is one of those developing countries who end up in world media for all the wrong reasons: civil war, famine, drought, Somalian pirates are to name a few. With the help of an Ushahidi based platform “Somalia Speaks“, Al Jazeera English is aggregating unheard voices from inside Somalia via SMS. The responses are translated into English and plotted onto a map.