Bulgaria: Mapping Crime and Electoral Violations

Bulgarian blogger Boyan Yurukov ^[1] has set up Bulgaria's first Ushahidi ^[2]-based site, Crime.bg ^[3], whose goal is to collect signals of crimes and irregularities, via the site itself as well as through mobile applications, Twitter ^[4] and Facebook ^[5]. On his blog, Yurukov explained the reasons ^[6] [bg] for creating Crime.bg: “1. People's lack of trust in police; and 2. Lack of open public data on crime rates in Bulgaria.” Crime.bg has inspired other activists in Bulgaria to use Ushahidi: e.g., Izboren Kodeks ^[7] (“Election Code”), a web initiative to track violations in the electoral process.