Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Nairobi, Kenya. Tags: community events net tuesday net2. Welcome New Net Tuesdays! Lomé, Togo.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2009

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Ushahidi was created to address the post-election crisis in Kenya , but is now being used to track violence, human rights abuses, and aid efforts all over the world. Tools Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I met “ichi&# virtually when he let me know about a Netsquared Japan meet up featuring the Networked Nonprofit. The Networked Nonprofit Nairobi Kenya on November 18th. Tags: Housekeeping. . >&# ichi&# – Hiroyasu Ichikawa who is president of the SocialCompany in Japan was visiting the Bay Area to attend SoCap.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. For example, if a family is looking for their missing mother, they can use the search engine to find images that volunteers have tagged with “adult” and “female.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? And Netsquared. " Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods.

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