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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. Similarly, by providing a range of online forums for engagement, the Holocaust Museum seeds conversation about genocide within visitors' own social networks and environments. But for what actions can museums advocate?

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames. It had been bombed.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). It's called Why Congo Matters. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

Then, the magazine is like a curation of all the best that's out there on our newswire, on our pipeline of content.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many). Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity. With your help, we will!

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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