Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2011

Over the past few weeks, we received over 250 applications from bloggers around the world – from California to Kenya, and from Mexico to Iraq. The three winning bloggers will accompany community workers as they distribute LifeStraw® Family water filters to almost a million households in Kakamega, Kenya."

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Monthly Meeting. Houston, TX: We’re Crushing on Open Technology this February and Open Houston’s Our Cupid! Kisumu, Kenya: Mozilla Make a Party Western Kenya joins together with Netsquared Kenya. Wednesday, January 15. Research Triangle, NC: Risks.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Nairobi, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon December 3, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. On the last stop of that trip, I went to Kenya to climb a mountain. Our connection to Kenya remains strong; we are also the guardians for one of the children from that orphanage, @sammyikua , who now studies in Maine. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Since 2007, offerings like M-Pesa , a mobile money transfer service, which began as an initiative from the telecommunications company Vodafone, is a huge opportunity for those living in primarily cash-based societies like Kenya and Tanzania. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmaker-Mozilla Western Kenya Network. Busia, Kenya: Social Media Week Event. Storymakers is live! We have $13,000 in prizes available!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Houston, TX: We’re Crushing on Open Technology this February and Open Houston’s Our Cupid! Kisumu, Kenya: Mozilla Make a Party Western Kenya joins together with Netsquared Kenya. Vancouver, Canada: Video for Nonprofits Workshop: The Essential Elements of Storytelling. Friday, February 14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events. There is nothing to fear about being open unless you have something to hide. I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events. Book Giveaways. Jaz Cummins with her copy of the book.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmaker-Mozilla Western Kenya Network. Busia, Kenya: Social Media Week Event. Storymakers Events. September 23. September 24. London, United Kingdom: Digital Storytelling. September 25.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

Busia, Kenya: Open web :exploring principles behind web maker ,ugunja mozilla network. Busia, Kenya: Hackathon -New Technologies and young talents-kenya. Guatemala, Guatemala: Apoyo a CTI 2014 del CampusTec. North Richland Hills, TX: Nonprofits and Techies Collide - How we can make a BIG difference together.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Open Data Day — Google+ Hangout. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Netsquared Yaounde, Cameroon Open Data Day. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Netsquared Yaounde, Cameroon Open Data Day. Busia, Kenya: Teaching Mobile Apps Development to High School.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. are a TechSoup initiative in the Central and Eastern European region that supports citizens to harness technology and create a more open society. The ReStart Challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We began with Hindi and Tamil, two of the most-spoken languages in India, and have recently added Arabic, which opened up our services to countries all across the Middle East and Northern Africa. The third blog post in this series on Bookshare International will describe our adventures creating the library’s first offerings in Arabic.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Technology. Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Small Charity Week 2015. Open Data Leads to Development: Is This Wishful Thinking? Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Data, Open Education, and Open Access for Development. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Data. Wednesday, July 15, 2015.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Busia, Kenya: mozilla western kenya follow ups -openness,opportuni­ty on the open web. Washington, DC: Powerful Websites: Hub for your Online Presence. Wednesday, April 30. Peterborough, Canada: Circumventing Burnout: Recruiting Others to your Communication Strategy. Thursday, May 1. Sunday, May 4.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

Busia, Kenya: Stop Cyberbullying Day SCD 2016. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmakers — Mozilla and NetSquared Kenya. Lausanne, Switzerland: Co-lab du Savoir: Open Space sur la Gestion du Savoir et des Connaissances 1+2. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Friday, June 17, 2016.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Toronto, Ontario: Sharing Data and Open Data for Nonprofit Organizations — Beginners Workshop. Toronto, Ontario: Taking the Next Step with Data Sharing and Open Data (Intermediate Workshop). Busia, Kenya. Maker Party Western Kenya. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Thursday, October 23, 2014. Thursday, October 30, 2014.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

We have scheduled our next theme month, on open data , for February and will gather the U.S. International NetSquared group leaders will also get together for training throughout the year, with our first events already planned for the United Kingdom, Cameroon, and Kenya. Busia, Kenya: Net2kenya Regional Event. Upcoming Events.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

In 2022, it was reported by Time Magazine and other sources ( Open AI Used Kenyan Workers, Jan 2023 ) that OpenAI used outsourcing firm Sama, a b-corp firm that hires workers in places like Kenya. Objection 6: Exploitive Labor Practice Exploitive labor practices by out-sourcing moderation in data cleanup.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Ever wanted to use open data in support of your advocacy campaigns? Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet Campaign — February 10 to March 25. Busia, Kenya: Teaching Mobile Apps Development to High School Students. Or learn how to use Excel better? Need help finding the right WordPress plugin for your website?

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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. It’s always tricky to find the right balance of specificity and openness–directing people toward action but still giving them room to be creative. They don’t just say, “You’re here now, talk amongst yourselves.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site. And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Vancouver, British Columbia: Open Data for Nonprofits. Busia, Kenya: Beyond Today’s Internet Experiencing: Smart Future Conference Kenya. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Morrisville, North Carolina: Spring Fling Networking Event. Thursday, March 19, 2015.

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AFP Blog

MAY 20, 2011

Since then, the open source platform has been deployed 12,000 times across the globe, from earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand and Australia to the tsunami in Japan this year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2010

Previous to that, he was at the Mystic Seaport Museum where he created the Mystic Maritime Gallery , which led to the opening of new markets for martime artists, and eventually spawned six for-profit gallery enterprises across the US. Music credits: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala , and "Bricks" by Crowsong. Happy Father's Day!

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

In this Center for Global Development post, he says that African governments are wrongly being paid to collect statistics to populate donor database and considers how this affects the formulation of more effective education policies in Kenya. Open Source philanthropy data big data' Pundits: Stop Sounding Ignorant About Data.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Joins Hour of Code 2015. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Empowering Cameroonians to Accelerate Open Data, Open Access, and Open Education. Wednesday, December 9, 2015. Bamenda, Cameroon: Office 365: Train-the-Trainer in Bamenda. Thursday, December 10, 2015. Friday, December 11, 2015.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Trends in mobile phones , social media , cloud computing , open data , e-government and e-governance , new applications, and open and developing Internet standards have increased the importance of ICT to multiple actors, which include CSOs. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet 2016 — 9th February 2016. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Bring Your Work! Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Victoria, British Columbia: Women in Technology Panel #2. Wednesday, February 24, 2016. Africa + Middle East.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. These folks do astonishing work.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. " The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

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. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Right before Thanksgiving, I was in London on my way back from Kenya. I am applying for jobs related to my accounting major. You are my good parents because I am an orphan. I love all of you!&#. London Event at Just Giving.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. " The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya.

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