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The Future Of Mobile

February 2, 2012

This past week I had the pleasure of speaking with the lovely Alicja Peszkowska from NetSquared, sharing my thoughts on problem-driven innovation and the future of mobile. This is a cross-post from...
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Looking Back At 2011

January 6, 2012

Well 2011 turned out to be a remarkable year, here is a recap of some of the things that kept me busy over the past twelve months. In January, the Ushahidi iOS app was officially released, glad to ...
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Mapping The Egypt Protests and Libya Crisis

April 7, 2011

On Tuesday, I had the honour of speaking at the Internet and 21st Century Revolutions conference in Madrid on behalf of Ushahidi. The event, organized by AERCO (Spanish Association of Community Man...
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SKFloods Helps Citizens Report Flooding In Saskatchewan

April 5, 2011

Today The Star Phoenix and The Leader Post ran an article on the Saskatchewan Flood map initiative I’m organizing in Saskatchewan, along side Laura Madison whose coordinating a similar efforts in M...
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Canadian mappers prepare for spring floods

March 20, 2011

The fantastic Heather Leson, a fellow crisis mapper wrote a great blog post about the Saskatchewan and Manitoba flood maps that myself and Laura Madison are coordinating. Ushahidi Mappers in Canad...
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SK Floods

March 2011

Ushahidi deployment to map and monitor the spring floods in 2011, providing location and images of flood damage.
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Crowdmap Helps Give Cyclists A Voice In Saskatoon

January 12, 2011

This week The Star Phoenix printed a story on the recent launch of the Ushahidi iPhone and iPad app, and how’s it’s being used in Saskatoon for cyclists to report incidents. A website set up by a l...
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Looking Back At 2010

January 3, 2011

It’s easy to charge ahead with the new year, but I believe it’s also important to first pause for a moment and reflect on all the things one’s accomplished over the past year. After spending the la...
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Ushahidi iPhone App

August 11, 2010

One of the first tasks as Ushahidi’s Mobile Project Manager, is to deliver the much-anticipated Ushahidi iPhone app. We’ve had an iPhone app in the works for the past year, however a lot has change...
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Ushahidi

July 29, 2010

Back in the fall of 2008, my friend Kaushal Jhalla introduced me to an exciting open source project called Ushahidi that was developing a platform for mapping crisis information. Ushahidi, which me...
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