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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. and that year we came in second.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

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And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. These folks do astonishing work. So much innovation.

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