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Kenya's Ushahidi Brings Tech Help Where It's Needed Most
“If it works in Africa it will work anywhere.” It’s something occasionally said about the mobile market on the continent. It’s something that Juliana Rotich has lived as the head of Ushahidi, a non-profit tech organization born during the chaos of post-election violence in Kenya... Read More »
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Kenya’s Ushahidi Brings Tech Help Where It’s Needed Most
“If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.” It’s something that’s occasionally said about the mobile market on the continent. And it’s something that Juliana Rotich has lived as the head of Ushahidi... Read More »
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Kenya’s Ushahidi To Be Redesigned
The process of redesigning Ushahidi platform, a mobile app enabling users to crowdsource crisis information, is currently on track. The new platform, Ushahidi v3, will be a complete redesign of Ushahidi’s core platform with the front-end set to be more mobile web-focused. Read More »
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Kicking Conflict Into Touch: How Sport And Technology Unite Community And Conservation In Kenya
Football has long been recognised as a unifying sport, with the ability to bring sides together in some of the most trying of circumstances. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Njenga Kahiro shares his very personal experience of how a combination of football and text messaging have successfully brought together warring communities to promote conservation in Kenya. Read More »
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Kicking Conflict into Touch: How Sport and Technology Unite Community and Conservation in Kenya
Football has long been recognised as a unifying sport, with the ability to bring sides together in some of the most trying of circumstances. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Njenga Kahiro shares his very personal experience of how a combination of football and text messaging have successfully brought together warring communities to promote conservation in Kenya.
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Konektaz Open Development & Open Data
On April 15, 2013 the United Nations marked the 1000 day mark to the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals. The eight goals are [as follows]... Read More »
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Kuhonga’s Anti-Corruption Strategy In Kenya
We’ve seen a rise in anti-corruption mapping. In the past few months, we’ve featured projects from Kosovo, Zimbabwe and even provided global overviews. [...] Today we are proud to share Kuhonga‘s journey, because it is both a global story and a Kenyan story. Read More »
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Leveraging Appification To Spur R&D Innovation
In my last entry, I posited that technology should be a barrier to “appifying” R&D workflows. So why haven’t apps taken off so far in R&D? I’d argue that it comes down to the paradigm shift that mobile technology has created in computing. Read More »
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Linux Development Report: Mobile Vendors Storm The Linux Bazaar
Linux kernel development is more mobile and more commercial every day. Cause for concern... or celebration? Read More »
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Linux Foundation Expands Management Team To Respond To Growth
IoT, Finance, Communications and Technical Talent Added to Manage Demand for Open Source Software...
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Long May the SMS Reign
THE greatest communication mechanism in the world is arguably still SMS - the short message service sent over cellphones.
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Luis Sosa, Technology Innovation For All In Latin America
Convinced that technology is not a privilege but a right for all, visionary Luis Sosa has positioned his company to expand access to mobile technology and create a connected global community. Latin America is leading the global mobile growth trend and has become an open field for fierce competition among manufacturers and carriers.
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Made In Kenya, Assembled In America: This Internet-Anywhere Company Innovates From Silicon Savannah
BRCK's device keeps people connected no matter where they are on Earth. And in a reversal of globalization, it's made in America, for the rest of the world...
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Malaria Detection Device To Be Field Tested A Year Ahead Of Schedule
A European Union-funded mHealth project to develop a mobile device using nanotechnology to rapidly detect malaria infection and drug resistance will be ready for field testing in 2013--a year ahead of schedule--according to a university announcement. Read More »
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MAVC: Open For Business
Making All Voices Count (MAVC) is a global initiative that supports innovation, scaling-up, and research to deepen existing innovations and help harness new technologies to enable citizen engagement and government responsiveness. This Grand Challenge focuses global attention on creative and cutting-edge solutions [...] to ensure the voices of all citizens are heard and that governments have the capacity, as well as the incentive, to listen and respond. Read More »
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