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Preparing for the Cameroon Elections / La préparation des élections au Cameroun 27 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
[Guest post by Jean Brice in English and French. He is preparing for the upcoming Cameroon Elections. Jean Brice previously joined the Uchaguzi Kenyan Elections team to learn how to do a full Ushahidi...
Process Matters: How Inclusion Can Be a Feedback Game Changer 22 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm
[Guest Post by Patricia Dorsher is the Feedback Labs Launch Editor at Ashoka and James E. Jernberg Public Service Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Feedback Labs is a consortium of like...
Weekly: Ushahidi 2.7.1 Testing, Khartoum Floods 22 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
Bugs Fixes, not the mosquito kind, are on our mind. Team Ninja has been hacking away to do a major bug fix for Ushahidi platform. We need your help to test before the next release. Also in the weekly,...
Ushine from the Data Science Fellows 21 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
Ushine is a tool created by the Data Science for Social Good Fellows. Nathan Leiby, Kayla Jacobs, Kwang-Sun Jim and Elena Evena joined Emmanuel Kala, our community and network to dive into data cleani...
Here’s To The Humanitarians 20 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
At Ushahidi, we love humanitarians. Over the years we’ve had the privilege of helping thousands of humanitarians around the globe — from crisismapping after the earthquake in Haiti to documenting huma...
How Mobile Phones Are Bringing Change in Governance 17 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
[Guest post by Sahiba Minhas cross-posted from engageSpark with permission] Currently, there are as many mobile-cellular subscriptions in the world as there are people, with more than half of the use...
Hopeful Action: An anthropological take on Ushahidi, Digital Activism and Hope 16 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
[Guest Post by Maria Grabowski. Maria Grabowski holds a M.Sc. in social anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. Based on fieldwork in Cairo and Nairobi, her Master Thesis from 2013 explores Us...
Weekly: SMSSync Release, Data Fellows 14 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
Happy Week! We have feature updates, a community asks for data tool testing and two Hangouts – one virtual and one in Seattle. Into the Code Crowdmap It’s now easier to embed content on Crowdmap on...
Data, Resiliency, and Waffles 13 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
Spend any amount of time traveling through the rural United States and you are guaranteed to pass one of the hundreds of yellow signs that dot the sides of highways and byways. The sign marks the loca...
Power of crisis crowdsourcing & media broadcasting – 3 key roles for mapping emergencies live 12 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
[Guest Post by Jaroslav Valuch, Head of Campaign against Racism and Hatecrimes at Agency for Social Inclusion, The Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Field Coordinator with the Ushahidi H...
