Roger Baker, Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology for the Department of Veterans Affairs receives his upgraded VIP Underground Railroad Card from Tom Munnecke...The VIP card is in recognition of his efforts to build on the success of the VIstA tradition, towards the new generation of open source health Information technology. Read More »

The Tides Foundation is now accepting nominations for this year’s Pizzigati Prize. The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually awards a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change. Read More »

Connecting with the Ushahidi community helps us focus on the mission to support their efforts. The Ushahidi team really values the “not-in-front-of-our-computer” time to both learn and share... Read More »

Several mobile service providers have come up with new data services and applications with rural consumers specifically in mind. Read More »

Check out USAID’s new FWD campaign and you will find something that you haven’t seen a lot of on USAID.gov in the past—a suite of interactive maps designed to tell the story of the crisis and the response. Read More »

There is a lack of accountability within philanthropy because the people who provide the resources aren't sufficiently well-connected to the beneficiaries they are supposed to be funding. Technology can change that, according to a panel speaking at an event -- hosted by the Indigo Trust, the Institute for Philanthropy and the Omidyar Network --  called "The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development". Read More »

Transparency, accountability, citizen’s voice. Like gender and anticorruption before them, these are no longer just political issues, off limits to the World Bank as a nonpolitical organization. As you will see from these pages, they are part of how we define Open Development. Bob Zoellick sees at its root a need to ”Democratize Development.” Read More »

At TechChange we believe the best way to learn crisis mapping tools like Ushahidi is to immerse participants in dynamic simulations in which they are forced to make challenging decisions with limited time and resources...Recently, we have used Ushahidi for an election monitoring simulation in Kenya, and to track checkpoint closures, medical emergencies, and other significant events in the West Bank. Read More »

[Some] of those who use the Linux code, free for the taking, don't give back in equal measure. Still, the time for cajoling those users -- even commercial projects like Ubuntu leader Canonical -- into participating is over, says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. Read More »