Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Find out more about this here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. There are women environmental leaders who are standing up for their communities, around the world, who do not have access to those key resources and information. The greatest challenge we face is the challenge of access. There are solutions.

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