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

  
  Open (minds, finds, conversations)... — Authority: 495
  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 ...
  1 day ago

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

  
  Connect - Digital Marketing Expertise from iCrossing — Authority: 422
  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 ...
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• Tags, Time and Location

  
  White African — Authority: 526
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Getting Better at Design and Crisis Mapping

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 411
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 411
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter vs. Tyrants: Ushahidi and Data Verification

  
  iRevolution — Authority: 415
  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, ...
  2 weeks ago

• ICCM and the Flat Organization

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 411
  David, Chris and I attended the International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM) this past weekend. It was the first time academics, governmental and nongovernmental agencies, software developers and people from the field have met under one roof to discuss crisis mapping. Everyone, about 70 in all, came together to ...
  2 weeks ago

• You can’t replicated DNA

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 411
  Ory and I are in Camden, Maine as part of the Pop!Tech Fellows program for 2009. It’s a time with exceptional individuals building companies that are trying to do the right thing, and taught by a faculty of world-class experts in everything from marketing to finance and social media. (more of my thoughts on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Ushahidi Forums

  
  The Ushahidi Blog — Authority: 411
  The Ushahidi forums are becoming the place to go for help, insight and information on Ushahidi. Recently, we had a question asking about how to add user authentication. After reading my response I realize that my answer on “user levels” might not be what the questioner is looking for… This is the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Evolving a Global System of Info Webs

  
  iRevolution — Authority: 415
  I’ve already blogged about what an ecosystem approach to conflict early warning and response entails. But I have done so with a country focus rather than thinking globally. This blog post applies a global perspective to the ecosystem approach given the proliferation of new platforms with global scalability. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Quick Hits around African Tech

  
  White African — Authority: 526
  Understanding what drives Mpesa agents Growing the agent network is one of the most challenging parts of a mobile payment system. “The number one cost for most agents was liquidity management – moving cash. Agents report a host of expenses, including bank charges, transport costs, and fees to aggregators who ...
  8 weeks ago

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