Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Examples from Haiti.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. One of the most innovative things about Ushahidi was that it was a platform for crowdsourcing information. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

I was a member of my neighborhood association at the time, and that was a Yahoo group, so I said, "Why not just set up a Yahoo group? I sent out one email to 30 or 40 friends and a handful of local nonprofits announcing the start of this Yahoo group. Then she got FedEx to pay to ship the whole thing over to Haiti.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. In the meantime here is some language that Pamela Grow included in the Grow Report : “PS: If you’re using gmail to read The Grow Report, Gmail’s bizarre new interface is probably dumping me into your Promotions tab.

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