Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. At the time of the Haiti earthquake, very few people in the country were using Twitter, but it was enough to get news of needs out to the world.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. " Nonprofit Education in Haiti. ATCAC operates a school in Guyotin-Coco, one of the poorest rural communities in Haiti.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. As Hersman says , "Sometimes there is just nothing more you can do than report what you see." Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

World Central Kitchen was founded by chef and activist José Andres in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, our founder José felt compelled by the news and flew down. We mapped out all the official and unofficial shetlers and start connecting with people on the ground there.

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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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010. Nicholas Felton has been obsessively collecting data about himself and publishing annual reports since 2005. For his 2010 Annual Report he compiled and presented data around his father’s life.

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