Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya. Jim Craner , MapTogether. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya. Jim Craner, MapTogether. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Sustainability is still a real challenge, but the cost to value ratio of a school computer lab is shrinking to the point where you are starting to see governments and local communities invest more on their own to promote ICT access. . I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. Back in my May Nonprofit Technology News edition, I covered the emerging field of digital wallets. I admit to being a bit envious of the Safaricom M-PESA. Oyster costs $9.95

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

The Bay Area based World of Good Development Organization has created a Fair Trade Wage Guide to help artisans calculate a “fair wage in a local context.” "At The Guide is built with free, open-source technology so that it is easy for artisans to use with their own systems. Cross-posted from WorldChanging San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education. These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

It's really designed to make sure that all solutions are both emerging from the local community and tailored to the community's needs, and are developing the leadership skills of the most promising and emerging leaders at the same time. The "collaborative project planning process" is a mouthful.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And, you know, he actually, you know, in his business had Project Launch as a formal product that they did for major hospital systems. We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” We wanted to beef up the hot water system. So there’s a need. What number should I be expecting? .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: DIY Donor Management System Selection. Busia, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon 3 December 2016. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Storytelling 2016. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

We’re in an era of a pervasive sense of hopelessness of changing the economic systems. But lots of innovation never makes it out of one locale. I even later met someone from Kenya who seems to have reinvented this technology. And I do see that movement building. A negative trend is the silo-ization of social causes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We didn't just dig holes, and build eco-sand composting toilets, and rainwater harvesting systems in schools, and BioSand water filters. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. This training was tremendous. Her name is Solame. From that point, my path shifted.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

After college, after some wanderings and living out in nature doing a lot of backpacking I decided I didn't want to, actually, well, actually let me start, I was a science major in college because I knew that I wanted to study eco-systems and help to preserve them that way. Went through the democractic system, went door-to-door.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. Have you guys ever heard of Freeport-McMoRan? anything.

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