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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. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. The biggest lesson: Everyone has something to give. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org. I see it in so many places, and it’s working.

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

Tech Soup

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. It puts one type of data on a map.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Mindful Engagement at Work and in Life , Adam Pava. NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Speakers: 250.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

NTEN

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Mindful Engagement at Work and in Life , Adam Pava. NTEN''s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Laura Glenn-Davitan , Common Good Vermont. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Speakers: 250.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Since then Ushahidi has won other awards, including the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map. And the prize money allowed us to bootstrap the much refined idea into something viable." Since then, there have been more than 6.5