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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

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. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change. We can’t only invest in a product.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

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. OpenData Latinoamérica: Driving the demand side of data and scraping towards transparency.