Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), for instance, has used Ushahidi to document the impacts of oil spills and other petrochemical pollution on human health and the environment. It puts one type of data on a map. Ushahidi's Early Days.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

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. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. One suggestion, Vancouver: add a crime map. and valuable ? for the public. Tell us in the comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. How is social media being deployed to connect the Green Movement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! Programs that are really complex, or which rely on tacit knowledge or specialized expertise, are harder to transfer to the online environment. And the results have been impressive.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

When all your desktop users are working in a virtualized environment, supporting your staff becomes a whole different ballgame. Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. Is it OK to put client home address information into a public mapping website? AND, it's the green thing to do. Make Al Gore proud!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

From their mission statement: The goal of the Urban Curators project is to engage the public in the celebration of the decaying urban environment, recognizing its inherent aesthetic qualities as well as the important role that it plays within our cultural habitat. Hooray for the use of google maps mashups to locate their "exhibits."

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