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The Power List: Juliana Rotich

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Ushahidi, Chile, Juliana Rotich, Kenya, Power-List, Ushahidi-Haiti, Haiti, Own Your Power, Congo, Bv-Money, Black Voices News

Imagine using the power of the web and technology to help people around the world. Well that's exactly what Juliana Rotich decided to do. As the co...

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How to Use Modern Crowdsourcing Apps to Keep an Eye on the Original Crowdsourcing App

Ben Berkowitz | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Ushahidi, Twitter, Voter, Facebook, Government 2.0, Voting, Crowdsourcing, Media News

The original crowdsourcing app, the voter booth, is going to be put to use tomorrow in thousands of municipalities around the United States. This once...

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This September 11th, We Don't Have To Partake In Uncivil Discourse

Sahar Taman | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Ushahidi, Muslims, Crisis Mapping, 911, American Muslims, 10th Remembrance of 911, September 911, Terry Jones Qur'an Burning, September 9/11, Crisis-Maps, September 9-11, Anti-Muslim Sentiment, September 11, Crowdmap, Religion News

Project Remembrance Map 911 is an initiative to mark 2011 to honor America by reaching out in friendship to neighbors and friends; Muslims, Christians, Jews and people of all faiths, backgrounds and cultures.

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Webby Award Winner: Kenya's Crowd-Mapping Start-Up Ushahidi

Andy Plesser | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Ushahidi, Beet.TV, Ory Okkolloh, Webby Awards, Technology News

Last night, TED's Chris Anderson awarded a Special Achievement (RED) Webby Award to Ushahidi, the Nairobi-based crowd-sourcing start-up. He pres...

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Surviving the Data Deluge: a Call to Action for the 21st Century

Raymond Schillinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ushahidi, Google, Open-Source, Education, Visualization, Data, Information Technology, Technology, Learning, Technology News

Despite the indoctrination of mathematics throughout primary and secondary education, we are by and large afraid of data.

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Our Coup d' Etat, by Accident

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

If we Americans and our civilian-elected leaders don't come to terms with our over-dependence on the military, we will cede increasing authority to an institution that doesn't want it and should not have it.

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Winning the Future, Losing the Point?

Kate Otto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ushahidi, Text to Change, Twitter, Globalization, Amy Chua, Education Reform, Facebook, Project Masiluleke, State of the Union, Barack Obama, text4baby, Impact News

If there is anything that Americans can rally around, it is the idea of "winning." We are, after all, a capitalist culture, fueled by competition and fiercely protective of our status quo as the wealthiest nation on the planet.

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Gov 2.0: Making States Work Better

Daniel Maree | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Innovation, Ushahidi, Ory Okolloh, Post-Conflict, Failed States, wdr2011, New Media, Afghanistan, State Effectiveness, Technology, Gov 2.0 Expo, Clare Lockhart, Conflict and Development, Interview, Kenya, Media News

This post originally appeared on the World Bank's Conflict & Development Blog on September 14, 2010. Last Tuesday (Sept. 7), the Grand Hyatt Washingt...

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Crowdsourcing election monitoring in Guinea: your help needed!

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guinea Elections, Ushahidi, Election Monitoring, Crowdsourcing, Impact News

Okay, the deal is that people have mashed together technologies to enable people on the ground to report what's going on, but they need your help fi...

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Student Volunteers Map Crisis Points To Help Chile Earthquake Victims

HuffPost | Naivasha Dean | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media Task Force, Crowd Sourcing, Ushahidi, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Columbia, Chile, Sipa, Chile Earthquake, Impact News

Students at Columbia University's School of Public Administration (SIPA) are taking grassroots activism to the next level with a new technology that u...

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Haiti Earthquake Damage: Ushahidi Crowdsources Crisis Information

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ushahidi, Ushahidi Haiti, Haiti Map, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Earthquake Damage, Haiti Earthquake Updates, Video, Technology News

Ushahidi, an innovative platform for aggregating mobile news, is being used to try to map the post-earthquake crisis in Haiti. Ushahidi is an open ...

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