What is citizen reporting?
You may have heard about it in the context of Twitter. Over at Social Citizens, Kristin Ivie blogged about how Twitter reporting has revolutionized the ways we gather and spread news. With the click of a button, any...
I attended last week's Communications Network Annual Conference, a gathering of philanthropy communicators designed to address the challenges and opportunities we face in our work. I was part of the conference’s 2nd annual Gorilla Engagement Squad,...
The benefits of crowdsourcing for crisis information were brought into the limelight in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, when Ushahidi, a platform originally developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout in...
Though the Valentine’s romance is behind us, our look at mashups continues. This week, I’d like to share a couple of mashups that are using the web to do advocacy jobs that otherwise wouldn’t get done.
Ushahidi software for citizen journalism....
Senior TED Fellow Erik Hersman gives an interview from TED2011 and discusses his work on projects like Ushahidi and Nairobi's iHub as well as the role of business and technology in the development of East Africa.
