Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

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. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. In addition to using Foursquare and Gowalla for conference attendees to check in and leave tips, the conference will also experiment with Whrrl, a geo location crowdsourced storytelling application.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Trends in mobile phones , social media , cloud computing , open data , e-government and e-governance , new applications, and open and developing Internet standards have increased the importance of ICT to multiple actors, which include CSOs. Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile. Not convinced yet?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook, noted Facebook's involvement after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, as well as after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, explaining how the platform is educating the public and letting them know how they can help.

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