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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. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster.

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

Tech Soup

Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives. Open Source disaster recovery data big data' OpenData Latinoamérica: Driving the demand side of data and scraping towards transparency. Image: NetSquared.