Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.

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Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Africa Data 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. By using a mobile phone, they can collect data on the go and easily sync it to their Salesforce platform if they are in an area where the internet is unavailable. What inspired you to share what you had built?

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Survey Mobile India San Francisco 65

Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Ushahidi created and deployed its platform in about three days to be used by ordinary Kenyans, allowing them to report incidents of violence happening around them. These folks do astonishing work. New Ushahidi Services for Nonprofits.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. Mid-stream we realized something phenomenal: We could make this platform 100% open to the public and not hold our performance data behind a curtain. The children living here are our exclusive focus.

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