Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Kakamega Town, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Regional Meeting /Kakamega County. But we are prepared for Halloween, since we spent the month in costume dressed as (social media) surgeons! October’s NetSquared Events. Tuesday, October 1. Saturday, October 26.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward.

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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. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Busia, Kenya: Blue Bells Orphans And Vulnerable Support Program /Kenya. Check out this video from NetSquared Northern Michigan’s recent meeting. They’re answering the question “how do I collect money online?” Tuesday, September 17. Event Reports.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. 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. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project.

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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. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Save the Elephants engages potential donors using Google Street View » Charity Digital News : "oogle has released Street View imagery of Kenya—including the Samburu National Reserve, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust—in partnership with Save the Elephants and with the support of the Samburu County Government.

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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. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Busia, Kenya: Blue Bells Orphans And Vulnerable Support Program /Kenya. There are several virtual events scheduled, including a global tweet chat on September 18. Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. September’s NetSquared Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Bath, United Kingdom: Tech for Good Community Mapping. Center photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. Right photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. Paris, France: Forum National des Associations et des Fondations. Bordeaux, France: Les Personas pour Optimiser Votre Conversion. Thursday, October 19, 2017.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

New Orleans, Louisiana: Putting NOLA on the Product Hunt Map. Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Small Charity Week 2015. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmakers — Mozilla Western Kenya Network — 2015. . --> North America. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Wednesday, July 15, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

A woman in Kenya (replete with name and photo) who could use your $50 to start a corner store. We’ll focus on the fancy tools of mapping and graphing; we’ll have debates about terminology and definitions. They don’t just say, “You’re here now, talk amongst yourselves.” All of this is very important.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2008

Ushahidi: Mapping Reports Of Post-Election Violence In Kenya. (I got quick lesson from David on how to pronounce it and if I had to announce the winners I would had have to practice it). Erik shared his excitement in a post over at NetSquared. First Place ($25,000) ??? Second Place ($15,000) ??? Third Place ($10,000) ???

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet 2016 — 9th February 2016. Logo and Map : Elijah van der Giessen / CC BY-NC. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Bring Your Work! Africa + Middle East. Friday, February 5, 2016. Douala, Cameroon: Netsquared Regional Gathering Cameroon. Tuesday, February 9, 2016. Mukono, Uganda: Hands-on Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. • Mapping • Cloud computing. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Speaking of maps, the Oxford Internet Institute has used Internet traffic data from Alexa to figure each country’s most popular websites. All Things D.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

See if there's a group close to you by searching our map. Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Joins Hour of Code 2015. GroundWork group in Columbus, Ohio. NetSquared Daytona Beach in Daytona Beach, Florida. Tech4Good Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Don't have a NetSquared group near you? We'd love to help you start a new meetup.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet. Los Angeles, California: WordPress for Nonprofits — Learn from an Expert! Thursday, February 9, 2017. Friday, February 10, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Paula Kahumbu – WildlifeDirect Nairobi, Kenya. She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. . The Audience As Part of the Presentation.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And so before their case for support was even dry, before they mapped out their gift tables, their leadership team was. . We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” They were kind of uniquely positioned in the community to meet this need, but they needed facilities very quickly. ” .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Busia, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon 3 December 2016. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Storytelling 2016. Kakamega, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya — Partnership to Fight Online Harassment. London, United Kingdom: Effective Data Mapping for Charities. Saturday, January 14, 2017.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The first is our International Strategy Meetings, where we convene our founding women from 26 different countries, who come together and really examine what the local issues are, what are the global trends, what is the work that they can do in partnership, and they really map out their plan and their goals and their work for the coming year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

But I could go on and on, I mean everywhere I went, there were amazing stories, and I kind of feel like now I could open up an atlas, or a map of the United States, and point to anywhere, and go there and find people who are doing this work of really trying to insure that there's healthy food available for everybody.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. With your help, PakReport can create a useful map of the crisis, available and accessible to all.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

From GlobalVoices : In order to document what is happening right now on the ground, on Friday the Ushahidi has deployed its software to the DRC after successfully using it during January's post-electoral violence in Kenya and in May during the xenophobic attacks on immigrants in South Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And interestingly, there was a group of women who really had put that on the map as well. I worked in East Africa with an organization called Care Kenya, working with women around sustainable agriculture issues. Interestingly, Doe Run has a sister company down in Latin America.

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