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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

I can’t think of a lesson, an outlook on life, and a guiding principle for my work that is more about love than this one. Now, at just 23 years old, Maggie’s work has been featured in the New York Times, and her remarkable story has earned her the DoSomething & CosmoGirl awards.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

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During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. Since then, the nonprofit has won other awards, such as the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. I was there that year and the competition was intense. So much innovation.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Since then Ushahidi has won other awards, including the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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She was also awarded their annual Ida B. BB: Can you talk a little bit about the program, how long it is, what the women learn, and what some of the challenges are for them to make the training happen within their every day life? We are training women at all levels in their life. Wells prize for Bravery in Journalism.