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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

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Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

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Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Resources from Tech Support Confidential , Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Breaking Through Language Barriers with Technology , Sara Peralta. Speakers: 250.

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2013 NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

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Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Resources from Tech Support Confidential , Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Breaking Through Language Barriers with Technology , Sara Peralta. Speakers: 250.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map. million posts or testimonies on Ushahidi to benefit an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015. Relief organizations and others could get an immediate picture of what was happening on the ground.