Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2012
In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.
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