Description
Syria Tracker was a crisis mapping platform built on the Ushahidi/Crowdmap platform by a handful of US-based Syrian activists, launched in 2011 just weeks after protests began against Bashar al-Assad's government. The crisis map documented 1,529 reports of human rights violations including a total of 11,147 killings, combining automated data mining technology with crowdsourced eye-witness reports smuggled out of Syria. It became one of the longest-running crisis maps in Ushahidi's history. The project exemplified how open-source mapping tools designed for disaster response could be repurposed for human rights documentation in conflict zones where traditional reporting was dangerous or impossible.
