Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. She then went on to hold several Traveling Postcards workshops both in her own community, and then in Kenya! The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better!

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. 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. Fundraising.

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Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 82

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. Saturday, June 20th is World Refugee Day , and this year's theme is "Real People, Real Needs." We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process. Obviously, what's good about it is that you're empowering people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It took a long time actually, it took about five more years of holding it inside, and I bet a lot of people in the audience might have experienced that feeling - of just holding onto something that you think could be very transformational, but you are too afraid to take that step. It had hit India. Or, you have to grow to a demand.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) :: @ PETA. charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. FINCA :: @ FINCA.

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Conservancy Nicaragua Kenya National 279

Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Via GlobalVoices , information about the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 1 million people have fled the province of North Kivu. Newsfeed here.). An interesting, and hopefully valuable, effort to mitigate the situation is the "Ushahidi" web site for reporting of incidents of violence and abuse.

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