Yesterday, at the Legatum Institiute’s Next Generation Philanthropy Forum I got to meet Juliana Rotich, programme director at one of the most interesting open source projects in the world, Ushahidi.
If you don’t know it, Ushahidi is an open source platform for communicating in a crisis. At simplest, it is a way of aggregating text messages, [...]
Tag Archive: charity
Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)
Love in the time of textual harassment
I met my wife when my internet access was restricted to a 36 kps modem at one computer in my office, next to the fax machine in the secretaries’ room.
I bought my first mobile phone after we’d been together for about six months. It would be a year or two before text messaging started in [...]
Tag Archive: charity
Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)
Yesterday, at the Legatum Institiute’s Next Generation Philanthropy Forum I got to meet Juliana Rotich, programme director at one of the most interesting open source projects in the world, Ushahidi.
If you don’t know it, Ushahidi is an open source platform for communicating in a crisis. At simplest, it is a way of aggregating text messages, [...]
Love in the time of textual harassment
I met my wife when my internet access was restricted to a 36 kps modem at one computer in my office, next to the fax machine in the secretaries’ room.
I bought my first mobile phone after we’d been together for about six months. It would be a year or two before text messaging started in [...]