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2011 Gov 2.0 Year in Review
...If you look back at a January interview with Clay Johnson on key trends for Gov 2.0 and open government in 2011, some of his predictions bore out. The House of Representatives did indeed compete with the White House on open government, though not in story lines that played out in the national media or Sunday morning talk shows. Read More »
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A Trip Through A 3D-Modeled Brain
Brains are, by design, incredibly dense. Whether a particular brain belongs to a human or a mouse, it features layer upon layer of matter that twists and turns and is almost incomprehensible in its complexity... Read More »
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Accelerating Identification and Tracking of Pandemic Disease Outbreaks
A national biosurveillance program requires the collaboration of multiple federal, state and local agencies to provide a comprehensive view of a health-related event. Bitscopic's Praedico™ biosurveillance platform breaks down the data barriers among organizations with an extensible architecture that can incorporate any kind of data. The platform also delivers high performance by incorporating the latest technologies such as big data, NoSQL databases, and machine learning. Read More »
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An Interview with Ushahidi’s Juliana Rotich
When there is a major catastrophe, ordinary sources of news and public information are unavailable. However, it is extremely important to get real time updates about the situation not only to control the catastrophe but also to help populations cope with such a crisis. Ushahidi is doing exactly that by using software.
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At the Forefront of Development
The hardware is rudimentary. An ordinary mobile phone connected to a laptop with a cable. But who would have thought that this simple set up could actually be turned into a central communication hub, and in the hands of civil society, become a powerful communication tool for people’s empowerment? Read More »
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Comprehensive Report On Mali Activation
Early this year, HOT was activated in Mali. Pierre Beland took the lead on this activation, and produced for OCHA this excellent report. Recommended reading, for the comprehensive qualitative and quantitative look at this creative and awesome collaboration. Read More »
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Creative Corner: How Kenyans Helped Vermonters Connect With Sun Power
If there were any doubt about this being the era of inter-connectedness for social movements and businesses alike, think again. Read More »
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Crossing Boundaries By Tracing Buildings: Mapping Kathmandu From New York City"
Throughout the day you could hear the simple question - 'Is that a building?' -- followed by conversations about shadows, and people, and the construction of a city that seemed so far away from our own... Read More »
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Crowdsourcing Gaining Momentum in Africa
In Africa, we are also seeing some innovative ways in which crowdsourciing is being utilised. In Kenya for example, Ushahidi put Africa’s crowdsourcing on the map, as its platform was effectively used to monitor the 2002 Kenya elections...Closer to home in Kubanata, a Zimbabwean human rights and civic organization leveraged crowdsourcing to gather information to map the Typhoid cases in Zimbabwe, providing critical data to assist with managing the epidemic.
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Data for the Public Good
From healthcare to finance to emergency response, data holds immense potential to help citizens and government.
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Disruptor of the Day: Juliana Rotich & Ushahidi – Proving It's the Use of Technology That Really Disrupts
Introducing Juliana Rotich & Ushahidi – “Ushahidi”, which means “testimony” in Swahili, was a website that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008.
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European Commission Joint Research Center And OpenStreetMap
Late March, just coming back from Burundi, I have been invited by Guido Lemoine from the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen – IPSC, Geospatial EMergency Management Action – GEMMA, that is part of the Joint Research Center (the European Commission’s in-house science service)... Read More »
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Every Library And Museum In America, Mapped
If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the ubiquity of McDonald's, this stat may make your day: There are more public libraries (about 17,000) in America than outposts of the burger mega-chain (about 14,000). The same is true of Starbucks (about 11,000 coffee shops nationally). Read More »
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Focus on Ushahidi: Kenya's Witness Eye
This was the reason why Ushahidi was founded, three years ago, by Kenyian born Ory Orkolloh, out of a voluntary effort. She graduated from law school and worked for a human rights group in Kenya. Her aim was to gather information about what is happening to the citizens during an emergency situation. Ushahidi means ‘testimony’ in Swahili.
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Google’s Purchase Of Waze Would Deal A Death Blow To Other Companies’ Mapping Efforts
It’s been a heady few months for Israeli social mapping startup Waze. In January Apple was reportedly courting it with a $500 million offer (Corrected: we originally wrote “billion”); last month it was Facebook, for $1 billion. Now Google is planning to offer $1.3 billion, sources have told Globes, an Israeli newspaper. Read More »
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