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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

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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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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

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and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Joins Mozilla Maker Party 2016. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Women and Web Literacy Program 2016 – 17. Nairobi, Kenya: Mobile Solar Computer Classroom Project in Kenya.