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Open-source: So Much More Than Just Software and Freebies

Stephen Chapman | ZDNet | July 20, 2012

Open-source is so much more than just Linux and free software. Learn more about open-source and how it positions itself to better people, businesses, and much more. Read More »

Re:Publica Conference On Internet And Society In Berlin

Loren Treisman | Indigo Trust | May 17, 2013

After almost 2 month’s in West Africa, I flew straight into Berlin for the Re:publica Conference, one of the world’s leading gatherings of techies and social activists, exploring how technology can help improve society across a huge range of themes. Read More »

Slow Ideas

Atul Gawande | The New Yorker | July 24, 2013

Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly? Consider the very different trajectories of surgical anesthesia and antiseptics, both of which were discovered in the nineteenth century... Read More »

SMS to Map – Using FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi to Tell Your Story

Patrick Munyi | iHub | February 11, 2012

Want to know more about using mobiles for social change, crowd sourced mapping, and how the two can combine? Keen to learn more about FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi, and how these software tools can be used together to enable positive social change?

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The Company That's Turning Activists Into Coders

Jane Porter | Fast Company | November 21, 2014

Coding isn't just for tech-wizards whipping up gadgets and apps in Silicon Valley. It has the power to create needed social change. Just ask Aliya Rahman, program director at Code for Progress, an organization that focuses on bringing more women and people of color to the tech world. While most tech diversity initiatives are focused on building a pipeline of young people to tech companies, Code For Progress, which launched in 2013, focuses on teaching social activists coding skills that they can use to address issues of inequality...

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The Largest Payment Platform On Earth Can Reach 2 Billion People–So Why Haven’t You Heard Of It?

Christopher Mims | Quartz | October 2, 2012

When Jana co-founder Nathan Eagle needed to connect to a cell carrier in the developing world, he’d come to meetings with a duffel bag full of cash and say that he wanted to buy airtime. For carriers who were taking on more customers than ever, but struggling with declining revenue per user, it was an irresistible sales pitch. The result, two years later, is that Jana is now the largest payment platform in the world. Read More »