Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. These folks do astonishing work. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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