Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. 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 internet is not new.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. There is also some interesting insight into the link between open development and social impact bonds, while the data dilemma is brought to the fore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

I think maybe a movie or game or two gets downloaded. It’s a student crowd, including grad students, and it’s a first job — of the “Is this all there is?&# Telefonica sees Campus Party as one stop shopping to reach the technology tastemakers and decision-makers of the near future. Some of them are a bit p.o.ed

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. Download Wille Nelson singing Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind." What makes us want to act for social change? Emotional connection.

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