Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? The UK NPTech website, Charity Digital News reports that the Royal London Society for the Blind and IBM are creating a new voice controlled screen reading application called the Chatty Web. Smart Watches. Accessibility. The Future of NPTech.

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News Technology Africa Kenya 58

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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Podcast Interview Action Network 40