Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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