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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters.

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News from NetSquared: Case Studies, Microsoft Development Challenge, and N2Y4 Registration Open!

Tech Soup

They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Last year's Mashup winner — Ushahidi — is the topic of the first case study. It will be held in San Jose, California from May 26-27. You can track all of the posts by using this link for the N2Y3 case studies here.

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

Tech Soup

We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. We got to know Ushahidi mere months after the platform launched. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. Live blog notes from a session at Northern California Grantmakers briefing about Virtual Worlds and Video Games here.

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