The Ushahidi platform has made a huge impact on the aspect of social activism and citizen journalism by enabling observers to submit reports via their phones or the internet. A way of using the internet to send reports is via the email service and GMail happens to be the most used data provider.
This project aims to introduce Gmail support into the Ushahidi Platform code, as its own specific data source. This is done by interacting with the Gmail service using its API, ensuring better support and integration with the service.
The primary technology used is the PHP language and the Gmail API service