As Knight News Challenge winners FrontlineSMS, Ushahidi and NextDrop have shown, mobile communications are crucial for citizens living in rural areas, where being able to reach other people and access relevant news and public services information make a huge improvement in people's lives. Read More »

“The Curry Stone Design Prize was created to champion designers as a force for social change. Now in its fourth year, the Prize recognizes innovators who address critical issues involving clean air, food and water, shelter, health care, energy, education, social justice or peace”. Read More »

Venture capitalists are beginning to steer their investment dollars away from fledgling pharmaceutical and medical device companies, a phenomenon that will drive jobs and promising treatments overseas, according to a new survey of life sciences investors. Read More »

This is the second in a series of interviews where we speak with leading innovators who are appropriating lessons from open source thinking—once purely the domain of the software engineer—for social change. Read More »

IBM today announced that the company is donating new software code to help health care and other industries work on shared content in real-time, on the Web. The code is from IBM Project Blue Spruce and will be donated to the Dojo Foundation's Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb). Read More »

The Ushahidi platform is increasingly used to map information generated by crowds...Why is this important? Because live public maps can help synchronize shared awareness, an important catalyzing factor of social movements. Read More »

To [exchange best practices and identify ways to collaborate among government and industry leaders], government and industry partners must work together in a transparent and collaborative manner, in a similar way that the Open Government Directive requires federal agencies to interact with citizens. Read More »

This week during our Social Media and Health class we were given an amazing guest lecture presentation by Dr. Anita Palepu [which] described the importance of open access in medical research. Read More »

In this one hour talk, two Google employees tell about Internet tools developed at Google and by other organizations to help manage crisis situations. When earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and other disasters occur, tools like People Finder and Ushahidi are deployed. Read More »