Ushahidi - Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis

New York Times by Anand Giridharadas | Mar. 14, 2010 (Special Report)

A small Kenyan-born Web site called Ushahidi is bringing crowdsourcing to disaster relief and other humanitarian causes. Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Business, Sci/Tech, Media
Topics: Africa, Kenya, Innovation, Technology, Citizen Journalism, Haiti
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Posted by: via Tim O'Reilly - Mar 13, 2010 - 1:54 PM PST
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