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Seeing the Social Impact of Mobile Technology: Experiences of a FrontlineSMS Volunteer

Staff | FrontlineSMS | February 1, 2012

FrontlineSMS relies on the support of our growing band of dedicated volunteers and interns, who provide heroic amounts of support to help us keep things running successfully. We have a page on our website dedicated to these ‘FrontlineSMS Heroes‘ in order to acknowledge all the great work they do. Read More »

Series: Introduction To Anti-Corruption Mapping

Heather Leson | Ushahidi | April 29, 2013

This blog series will focus on anti-corruption and transparency mapping. We’ll post about best practices and feature some of the strategies to connect policy and action with online savvy. Our community strategy is aimed to connect topical mappers to build and learn together... Read More »

Sourcemap Crowdsources Data About the Food You Eat

Beth Hoffman | Food+Tech | January 16, 2012

“Knowing where your food comes from” is arguably today’s biggest food trend. But to Sourcemap CEO Leonardo Bonanni PhD, traceability is far more than a fad. He and his team have created a crowdsourced directory of product supply chains and environmental footprints, making possible public information on everything from laptop computers to orange juice. Read More »

STM Adopts OpenStreetMap

Simon Mercier | MapGears | June 26, 2013

Mapgears’ team has been involved in the development of the new Web application for the “Société de transport de Montréal” (STM) this winter. The TP1 agency, who built the new STM website and integrated their new branding, turned to Mapgears for the production of an online map entirely based on OpenStreetMap [...]. Read More »

USAID Invests In Open-Source Mobile Tech For Water Sanitation Monitoring

Amanda Sperber | Huffington Post | August 22, 2013

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) initiative just announced its investment in mWater. A non-profit tech startup, mWater has created an app for mobile phone users to instantly test and analyze water quality from local sources and share this information [...]. Read More »

USAID Plans to Map All Its Spending Data in Some Countries

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | January 19, 2012

The U.S. Agency for International Development's new GeoCenter is working on a project to geographically code all agency program sites in selected countries with financial and other data, Administrator Raj Shah said Thursday. Read More »

Ushahidi: An Introduction To Anti-Corruption Mapping

Heather Leson | Transparency International | May 2, 2013

This blog post is the first of a blog series on anti-corruption and transparency mapping by Ushahidi’s Heather Leson. The series will discuss best practices and feature some of the strategies to connect policy and action with online savvy. Read More »

Visualizing The Stunning Growth Of 8 Years Of OpenStreetMap

Emily Badger | The Atlantic Cities | June 10, 2013

The U.S. OpenStreetMap community gathered in San Francisco over the weekend for its annual conference, the State of the Map. The loose citizen-cartography collective has now been incrementally mapping the world since 2004... Read More »

What The Red Dots Are For, Or Why We Map (Part 1: Iraq)

Helena Puig Larrauri | Ushahidi | February 22, 2013

Mercy Corps has recently embarked on a strategy to introduce mapping tools to its conflict management and protection programs around the globe – from Iraq to Kenya to Nepal... Read More »

When Bushfires Sound Alarms, Social Media Can Save Lives

Hanna Suominen | The Conversation | October 24, 2013

These days, social media and online apps have become a major source of disaster information and warnings. But how much can we trust them? Read More »

Young "Dare Devils" Map Their World With ODK And FormHub

Yaw Anokwa | Open Data Kit | June 20, 2013

For the last two years, University of Columbia's modi research group have been working to help a group of children in Kolkata, India use ODK Collect and formhub to map social issues in their community. Read More »