# Platform Developer Documentation

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#### What is Ushahidi Platform? <a href="#what-is-ushahidi-platform" id="what-is-ushahidi-platform"></a>

The Ushahidi Platform is a crowdsourcing software application that helps you to collect data information important to you, your community, organisation or institution via these datasources: Web, Mobile, SMS and Email. It also helps you to manage and analyze these data information that you have collected.

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#### Set up your developer environment <a href="#code-of-conduct" id="code-of-conduct"></a>

The technical documentation for this part is undergoing a review, but if you want to dive in, set up your developer environment and start contributing, please [read this guide](https://app.gitbook.com/o/-LEUwSacjzjxNiZTJzCs/s/613MMydzjPag65lbLIPk/).

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#### Code of Conduct <a href="#code-of-conduct" id="code-of-conduct"></a>

To ensure everyone has a good experience, we ask **everyone** that interacts with our community and staff to read our Code of Conduct and values.

{% content-ref url="code-of-conduct" %}
[code-of-conduct](https://docs.ushahidi.com/platform-developer-documentation/code-of-conduct)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="code-of-conduct/values" %}
[values](https://docs.ushahidi.com/platform-developer-documentation/code-of-conduct/values)
{% endcontent-ref %}

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#### Navigating Ushahidi Platform Developer documentation <a href="#navigating-collabo-contributor-docs" id="navigating-collabo-contributor-docs"></a>

At the top left of any page of the Ushahidi platform developer documentation, you will find a dropdown element where you can get to select the version of Ushahidi platform documentation that you want to view. If you are on a mobile phone, then this dropdown is somewhere in the sidebar.

<figure><img src="https://410592331-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FtHjxplj93wK3nCtmkDOH%2Fuploads%2FzdKojdb53QASQaQ9sWIJ%2FScreenshot%202023-10-20%20at%2011.34.27.png?alt=media&#x26;token=1ae69788-63d3-4600-8df0-9bdb96bc972e" alt=""><figcaption><p>Select platform developer documentation version from top left dropdown</p></figcaption></figure>