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Two Years After The Book: “A Digital Liberia”, How Digital Is Liberia?
It’s been over two years since I first submitted the final manuscript of what would later be my first book titled, “A Digital Liberia: How Electrons, Information and Market Forces Will Determine Liberia’s Future” A lot has happened since then. In the following paragraphs, I briefly discuss the progress made in Liberia’s ICT sector since the book was published. Read More »
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Uchaguzi Kenya 2013 Launched
...This makes us very proud today to announce the official launch of the Uchaguzi Kenya 2013 partnership. Uchaguzi’s aim is to help Kenya have a free, fair, peaceful, and credible general election. Uchaguzi’s strategy for this is to contribute to stability in Kenya by increasing transparency and accountability through active citizen participation in the electoral cycles...
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Uchaguzi – Community Next Steps
The Kenyan 2013 Elections are just over a month away. If this past weekend’s political nominations are any indication, there will be a rise of people’s voices and stories to share. You may be asking: how can I contribute? From researchers to developers to online strategists to translators and sense-makers, we aim to connect and build Uchaguzi together. Read More »
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Uganda Speaks: Technology and the Right to Reply
The developing world often gets poor representation in the western media. From well-meaning but simplistic representations by charities and advocates to enduring stereotypes of dark continents and poverty, developing countries are frequently denied the right to be seen as the complex, varied and human places they are. Read More »
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Umati Final Report Released
A project by iHub Research and Ushahidi, Umati was born out of the influence social media was seen to have had on the 2007/8 post election violence. [...] Read More »
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Urgent Tweet in Kenya Village: Help, Sheep Missing
A recent report said that Twitter is enjoying big growth across Africa. It said South Africans use Twitter the most, but Kenya is second in usage on the continent. Read More »
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Ushahidi - An Open Source Disaster & Crisis Management Mapping Tool
Ushahidi is a non-profit technology company specializing in developing open source software (OSS) for information collection, visualization, communications, and mapping. The core platform is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. It can also be used to help organizations marshal efforts to assist areas facing manmade or natural disasters that are not well covered in the mainstream media.
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Ushahidi - Crowdsourcing Democracy, From Kenya To The World
Platform that promotes humanitarianism and citizen journalism emerges from Kenyan civil strife; now it instigates economic change and social activism internationally. Read More »
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Ushahidi And Designing For Data: Next Steps
There is no doubt in my mind that Ushahidi and Crowdmap are successes in their own right. The platforms fills huge information gap in crisis operations and people know it. But with any success comes the expectation that you continue to evolve the solution to meet the growing demands of the user base. [...] Read More »
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Ushahidi Announces Changes to Board of Directors
Ushahidi today announced that its board of directors has appointed three new members, effective September 19th. The new directors are Clay Shirky, David Kobia and Erik Hersman. Read More »
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Ushahidi At Five
Ushahidi is 5 years old. What started as an ad hoc group of bloggers and technologists scrambling to make sense of the madness that our country was falling into has become a global organization and platform. There was no way we could foresee what would happened in the intervening years...40,000+ deployments of the software in 159 countries means that we did something right. Read More »
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Ushahidi Being Used To Assist Kenya Carpools
Ushahidi, a Kenyan non-profit organisation specialising in free and open source software, has aided the Kenyan carpool Twitter surge by creating a crowdmap to capture, categorise, geo locate and visualise as many tweets as possible. Read More »
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Ushahidi Blog - August 2013
[Selected excerpts from the Ushahidi Blog] According to Jean Brice, "We will start to use the Ushahidi platform for the upcoming Elections in Cameroon. Read More »
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Ushahidi Community Hours @ Crowdmap
You requested it, we’re making it happen. You asked for Community Hours to meet each other and learn while we all build expertise... Read More »
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Ushahidi Offers Kenyans Social Activism
Ushahidi is a word that means testimony in Swahili. It's also a website that aggregates a whole lot of data: texts, tweets, photos and descriptions from mobile phones to give a true picture of what's happening on the ground during emergencies. Read More »
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