Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Naples, Florida: Google Drive: Tips and Tricks for Collaboration and Productivity. Los Angeles, California: Using Technology in Local Activism. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet. Monday, March 6, 2017.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. "Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. "Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * NetSquared East Africa (South) Regional Ambassador's Summit for Local Organizers. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Supporting Encryption and Journalism. Image : Michele Mateus / CC BY-NC.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Adobe Creative Cloud also provides online storage and collaboration web services, which includes a new Sync Settings feature that maintains your preference setting across multiple computers. Ushahidi in Kenya has developed a device called a BRCK that addresses frequent Internet and electricity outages in much of the developing world.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” ” So over the past several months, we’ve been working with, you know, indigenous architects, the local doctor that’s going to oversee, you know, the opening and the management of the project. So there’s a need. I mean, crying.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

I particularly like his pieces “Impact: The Lovechild of Innovation and Collaboration” and Innovation Obsession Disorder. The sharing and collaborative impulse that is hardwired into tech in general and social media in particular amplifies this. But lots of innovation never makes it out of one locale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Response was laughter).

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. BB: You've captured so many amazing images and stories in this book, what is the image that stands out the most for you? I would never ask that question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So for me as an artist, I got together with some other activists to figure out how could we build beautiful images that would attract the media, attract other human beings of our same species to care about these things as well, and that was the road to doing Art and Revolution. Have you guys ever heard of Freeport-McMoRan? And there wasn't.

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