Nokia Conversations is in the middle of profiling a number of organisations and businesses who have a focus on helping the developing world. Three organizations have already been highlighted and more are on the way. You can follow along with the updates on the Nokia Conversations blog here.
Who's helping the developing world?
Source: NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org blogsYou're ready to get your non-profit online and make a difference. Grand. Except...there's just a few basic things you're not quite sure how to do. Like edit a wiki, back up your computer's memory or um, code.
Off with you to Wired's How-To Wiki, which happens to be the most empowering place I've discovered for acquiring any internet skills beyond checking your Facebook. Get started with our selected list of their how-to's here:
First, learn to back up your non-profit's computers.
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While many eyes were on the US election last week, many eyes were also on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially those working on Ushahidi. A N2Y3 Mashup Challenge winner, Ushahidi means 'testimony' in Swahili, but as a web tool it enables citizens to use mobile phones, emails or web forms to report and map crisis information. The first deployment of the new Ushahidi Engine into a crisis zone took place only a couple of days ago as Ushahidi released the platform for the DRC.
Some updates on stories we've been following at Social Ch@nge:
Google's Evil Meter:
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Ushahidi, a N2Y3 Mashup Challenge winner, proves that sometimes unrest and urgency, not funding, can be enough to get a project off the ground. Ushahidi means 'testimony' in Swahili, but as a web tool it enables citizens to use mobile phones, emails or web forms to report and map crisis information.
Here's a sampling of updates from the 21 N2Y3 Featured Projects' blogs:
Why a Little Drama Never Hurts
Ask Your Lawmaker talks briefly with DNC chairman Howard Dean about Hillary Clinton's cutting short the roll call during the Democratic Convention.
Okay, time for an update to let you know what we've been doing at Ushahidi with the winnings from the NetSquared Challenge.
Ory and I are madly dashing around Kenya, meeting with local NGOs and users to determine what we need to build into Ushahidi's Engine (version 2). We helped sponsor the local Barcamp Nairobi, which was a huge hit and brought us even more developers.
Source: NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org blogsWe wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who attended the NetSquared conference and for NetSquared for making this whole thing possible. David, Ory, Juliana and myself are absolutely stunned and ecstatic about what this win will let us do.
More than the financial support, we were moved by the validation we got from the community through this prize. Sometimes you can think you're a little crazy, tilting at windmills on your way to changing the world, so this means a lot.
When moved to build Ushahidi earlier this year, I wrote:
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