Ushahidi

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Seven years after putting crowdsourcing on the map, Ushahidi is changing the way information flows again. The Kenyan-born tech company that ignited the tech revolution in Africa [|released a total re-imagination of its flagship service] today, empowering anyone to gather reports from anywhere, anytime.

People in 159 countries have created more than 90,000 Ushahidi deployments since 2008 to gather information from people on the ground, including reports of violence in Syria and calls for help from earthquake victims in Nepal.

[|Ushahidi.com]

Our third Ushahidi Environmental Mapper Google hangout will be: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 15:00 – 16:00 EDT / 19:00 – 20:00 UTC

Social Web
https://twitter.com/ushahidi https://wiki.ushahidi.com http://blog.ushahidi.com http://www.slideshare.net/ushahidi http://forums.ushahidi.com http://blog.ushahidi.com/2013/04/22/mapping-our-environment

Hangout
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Elsewhere on the Web
[|Corruption Tracker] [|Balkan E-Waste] [|thinkabouti] http://www.bethkanter.org/map-ushahidi https://crowdmap.com/posts/photos

Headlines
https://www.ushahidi.com/blog/2016/04/20/ushahidi-selected-as-one-of-classy-awards-100-finalists-for-best-in-social-innovation http://ensia.com/articles/the-man-behind-africas-growing-digital-democratization-movement

Quotes
Know your vision and mission, and know where you’re going. Use a compass, not a map. - Erik Hersman, http://ensia.com/articles/the-man-behind-africas-growing-digital-democratization-movement

Alerts
https://twitter.com/ushahidi/alerts

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