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• Patrick: What I’m Up to at Ushahidi and Why

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 114
  I distinctly remember the first time I heard of Ushahidi. It wasn’t while visiting my family in Nairobi amidst the tragic election-violence but rather a week later and on the opposite side of the planet. I was in Dili, Timor-Leste, working with a local NGO to set up a community-based conflict early warning system ...
  6 days ago

• Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing for Peace Mapping

  
  Conflict Early Warning and Early Response — Authority: 100
  Cross-posted on iRevolution . Lynda Gratton at the London Business School gave one of the best Keynote speeches that I’ve heard all year. Her talk was a tour de force on how to catalyze innovation and one of her core recommendations really hit home for me: “If you really want to be at the cutting edge of ...
  1 week ago

• Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing for Peace Mapping

  
  iRevolution — Authority: 499
  Linda Gratton at the London Business School gave one of the best Keynote speeches that I’ve heard all year. Her talk was a tour de force on how to catalyze innovation and one of her core recommendations totally hit home for me: “If you really want to be at the cutting edge of innovation, then you better make ...
  1 week ago

• Disasters! (Just in time for 2012)

  
  NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogs — Authority: 516
  It’s no coincidence that 2012 (the latest in a long line of disaster movies from director Roland Emmerich)  is timed to release during one of the worst weather months North Americans experience. Yep, November is storm season, bringing with it power outages, floods, snow, wind – and that’s only on the west ...
  1 week ago

• Disasters and how to deal with them online! Just in time for 2012.

  
  Social Ch@nge — Authority: 444
  It’s no coincidence that 2012 (the latest in a long line of disaster movies from director Roland Emmerich)  is timed to release during one of the worst weather months North Americans experience. Yep, November is storm season, bringing with it power outages, floods, snow, wind – and that’s only on the west ...
  1 week ago

• Displacement’s Call for Crowdsourcing

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  The increasing severity of global displacement creates the need for a responsive use of the world’s advancing digital technologies. The tangle of humanitarian crisis might be severely truncated if crowdsourcing , like that of Ushahidi , which developers created in the immediate wake of 2008’s Kenyan electoral ...
  2 weeks ago

• Micro-dynamics of Reciprocity in an Asymmetric Conflict (Updated)

  
  Conflict Early Warning and Early Response — Authority: 100
  Thomas Zeitzoff is a PhD candidate at New York University. I came across his research thanks to the Ushahidi network , and am really glad I did. He wrote a really neat paper earlier this year on “The Micro-dynamics of Reciprocity in an Asymmetric Conflict: Hamas, Israel, and the 2008-2009 Gaza Conflict,” which ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Next Generation Philanthropy Forum

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 114
  It was an honor to represent Ushahidi at The Next Generation Philanthropy Forum in London , where I gave a brief presentation on Ushahidi’s genesis, current activities and future plans . It is very encouraging to meet experts in Social Media , Diplomacy and Technology, who are already aware of the Ushahidi ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)

  
  Open (minds, finds, conversations)... — Authority: 489
  Yesterday, at the Legatum Institiute ’s Next Generation Philanthropy Forum I got to meet Juliana Rotich , programme director at one of the most interesting open source projects in the world, Ushahidi . If you don’t know it, Ushahidi is an open source platform for communicating in a crisis. At simplest, it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Next Generation Philanthropy Forum: Advocacy and Philanthropy through New Media

  
  Connect - Digital Marketing Expertise from iCrossing — Authority: 493
  The  Legatum Institute held  The Next Generation Philanthropy Forum in London yesterday (at an intriguiging venue, The  Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury). It was an event that exuded the ambition that the title would suggest, full of ideas about how to galvanise philanthropy with market disciplines, measurement ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tags, Time and Location

  
  White African — Authority: 454
  On Friday I had a long conversation with Noam Cohen from the New York Times about Ushahidi and Twitter . He was doing some homework for an article he was writing on the increased value that geolocation data can add to the massive streams of data coming out of tools like Twitter, called “ Refining the Twitter ...
  2 weeks ago

• Getting Better at Design and Crisis Mapping

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 114
  I’m really ( REALLY ) excited today. Today I get to announce that two amazing individuals who have been long-time Ushahidi community members are joining the team to help with areas that we have a great need for their expertise in. First though, a big thank you to the Cisco Foundation . Through their generous ...
  3 weeks ago

• Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 114
  I had the chance to do a talk with Ivan Sigal, Executive Director of Global Voices , at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC this week. The talk was primarily about the paper that Ivan wrote, titled Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies, which should be out soon. I filled in as a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Twitter vs. Tyrants: Ushahidi and Data Verification

  
  iRevolution — Authority: 499
  My colleague Chris Doten asked me to suggest panelists for this congressional briefing on the role of new media in authoritarian states. I blogged about the opening remarks of each panelist here . But the key issues really came to fore during the Q/A session. These issues addressed Ushahidi , data validation, ...
  4 weeks ago

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