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. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. We can’t only invest in a product.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Nairobi, Kenya. I’m so excited about these new groups! Learn about Net Tuesdays and get local!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. How can we do that?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. He also says that the fact that Big Data suffers from extreme sample bias is usually true of any dataset collected using non-random sampling methods. Image: NetSquared. Videos of presentations can be found on the PDF website. Open Source disaster recovery data big data'

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