Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

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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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

APRIL 19, 2016

The Ushahidi platform was created and deployed by this group in about three days. The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. We got to know Ushahidi mere months after the platform launched. The name "Ushahidi" means testimony in Swahili.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. You can make friends and call them into action, but those actions and real engagement will link to and live outside of the platform. Use the tool for what it is: a communications platform.

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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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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g.,

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