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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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BRCK Founders Embark On Epic Roadtrip To Promote African Connectivity
This is pretty cool: the folks behind BRCK — the device that allows you to connect to the internet, no matter where you are and without electricity — are embarking on an epic roadtrip from Nairobi to Johannesburg...
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BRCK: Ushahidi’s Kickstarter Project Designed To Fix Africa’s Internet Issues
Leave it to the Kenyans to figure out a way to connect to the internet no matter where you are and without electricity. Currently attempting to raise a whooping US$125 000 on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, BRCK is an Ushahidi initiative that hopes to solve internet connectivity issues in remote areas. Read More »
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BRCK: World’s Most Kick-Ass Internet Modem
Nairobi-based Ushahidi, better known for its crowd-sourcing software that helps map violence, has just entered the hardware business. Sticking to their populist roots, it crowd-funded the start-up capital to produce a new type of Internet modem that’s designed by Africans, for Africans. Read More »
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Cameras As Evidence: What Does It Mean For Ushahidians?
Deep in the mountains of Italy, Centro d’Ompio, we sat in a circle brainstorming Cameras as Evidence. What would it take to collect a good and actionable citizen report using photos or video? Lead by Chris Michael of Witness, we discussed and brainstormed. [...] Read More »
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Can Africa’s Mobile Phones And Maps Usher In A Governance Revolution?
For crime victims in the Kenyan town of Lamet Umoja, where before there was silence, now there is Twitter. Read More »
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CAT-Zim SACMA Launch Zimbabwe’s Own Version Of USHAHIDI
Southern Africa Crisis Management Agency (SACMA) and Christian Action Trust Zimbabwe (CAT-Zim) have come together to launch a grassroots anchored peace initiative ahead Zimbabwe’s watershed elections this year. Read More »
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Citizen Initiative Against Repression of Women [Bangladesh]
Bijoya (http://bijoya.crowdmap.com) is an online citizen initiative to report incidents against women in Bangladesh with the help of technologies such as SMS, e-mail, tweets, Facebook and web. This initiative lets people use easy and affordable technologies available to them to report any incidents against women in Bangladesh. Bijoya authorities also keep the identity of reporter anonymous if asked to.
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Coders to Learn How to Deploy Humanitarian-Focused Apps on Openstack
Dana and I are passionate about making open source communities inclusive and welcoming. The codeathon is a terrific opportunity for us to be tour guides for women of all backgrounds as they explore open source projects like OpenStack. [Dana Bauer]: I love the humanitarian focus at Open Source Day. Egle and I are demonstrating how to deploy humanitarian-focused applications on OpenStack, and it's exciting to think that some of those apps could be the first steps toward making a difference in the world...
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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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Crisis Maps: Harnessing The Power Of Big Data To Deliver Humanitarian Assistance
Crisis-mapping technology has emerged in the past five years as a tool to help humanitarian organizations deliver assistance to victims of civil conflicts and natural disasters. Crisis-mapping platforms display eyewitness reports submitted via e-mail, text message, and social media. Read More »
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CrisisNET Speedily Aggregates Social Data In Disaster Situations
Not-for-profit software company Ushahidi has launched CrisNET, an open-source platform that it claims will dramatically reduce the amount of time that it takes journalists, analysts and humanitarian organisations to get their hands on well-structured, crowdsourced data in the midst of conflict and disaster. Read More »
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CrowdOutAIDS: Crowdsourcing a Solution
In response, policies are made and programmes put in place “for” young people. But young people rarely have a say. CrowdOutAIDS.org, UNAIDS new crowdsourcing project, turns that model on its head: it’s an online collaboration to rebuild the organization’s approach to HIV and young people from the bottom up. Through it, we want to find new ways to work with young people, across borders, for a shift on AIDS
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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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Crowdsourcing Linked Open Data For Disaster Management
This paper shows how Linked Open Data can ease the chal- lenges of information triage in disaster response efforts. Recently, disaster management has seen a revolution in data collection. [...] Read More »
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