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Weekly x 3: Community Map & Global Wrap-up
What an amazing few weeks connecting in person with deployers on two continents! Please consider this a 3-week wrap-up of great projects and people. While traveling, I met deployers ranging from...
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Weekly: Java SDK, Mangroves and Pro-Poor Innovations
We couldn’t let December come and go without releasing new code! Henry Addo has updates to the Java SDK. In this weekly, we also have updates from Random Hacks of Kindness in Bangalore and Nairobi, the...
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UMATI- Monitoring Dangerous Speech Online
This is a blogpost by Angela Crandall, one of the Research Leads at iHub Research, Nairobi. While most projects related to hate speech have been looking at mainstream media, we are aware of the...
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Weekly: Swift API, Community meetups & Gratitude
Happy Code Year! Ushahidians are arriving in Kenya for our annual team meetings and coworking. We’re excited to get started. If you are a community member, partner, friend, funder or fan of Ushahidi,...
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Weekly: Uchaguzi, Community Dev Live Meetup
Happy Week from Nairobi! We have updates about Uchaguzi and the upcoming Community Developer call. Pause. A room full of creative, dedicated, smart people gather. Their mission: to build a strong...
View ArticleMonitoring Dangerous Speech: Umati Update
Lead by Kagonya Awori and Angela Crandall, the dedicated ihub Research team is monitoring and analyzing Dangerous Speech in Kenya with the Umati project. The Umati (the Swahili word for “crowd”)...
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Uchaguzi – Community Next Steps
The Kenyan 2013 Elections are just over a month away. If this past weekend’s political nominations are any indication, there will be a rise of people’s voices and stories to share. You may be asking:...
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Weekly: OpenIR in Jakarta, Windows 8 App, & Uchaguzi
Happy Week! In this Community report, we’re featuring work from Jakarta, Italy and, of course, Kenya. The next two months will be full of Uchaguzi updates. Since the Ushahidi team is heavily involved...
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Uchaguzi Kenya 2013 Launched
As you approach a major milestone in life someone usually asks, “What would you have done differently if you knew then what you know today?” Many times this is nothing more than just a curious exercise...
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Uchaguzi Merging Local and Digital
Two weeks until the Kenyan election. Some of our team and community are living and breathing Uchaguzi – 24 x 7. Planning and training: We have two types of teams you can join: Community Working Groups...
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When your community changes you….
Uchaguzi is You! is our mantra. We are always on and always in edit mode. We are managed in a team driven engine that is decidedly non-linear. Everyone works with integrity and takes our Code of...
View ArticleSubscribe: Kenyan Dangerous Speech Monitoring Public Report
The Umati project, run by iHub Research & Ushahidi – seeks to identify and understand the use of dangerous speech in the Kenyan online space, in order to find and use non-government ways to reduce...
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Community Update: Environmental Mappers, 2.7 in the Hopper
What an amazing journey to spend this past month with three of our largest community bases: Election monitors, anti-corruption and crisismappers. Each have unique and, sometimes, similar needs. Each...
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Released: iHub Research’s Uchaguzi Monitoring & Evaluation Brief
During Kenya’s 2013 General Election, Uchaguzi Kenya 2013, a joint initiative between SODNET, Ushahidi, CRECO, and Hivos (with support from CIDA), was used to help increase transparency and...
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Increased Levels of Online Hate Speech in February and March 2013
Hate speech has garnered growing interest in Kenya since the 2007/8 Post Election Violence where it was seen to have played a significant role. As a result, the Umati project was initiated in...
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Weekly: Uchaguzi Hangout, Code of Conduct & Testing 2.7
Happy Week! We are a mission to share best practices and co-create a Code of Conduct. Plus, we have two Deployments of the Week from Venezuela. The biggest Ushahidi news this week is that we are in...
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Umati Google Hangout: Monitoring Dangerous Speech
Ushahidi is excited to invite you to join an Umati Research – Monitoring Dangerous Speech Hangout. This is the first in a series of research-focused Google Hangouts. Join the Umati Google Hangout Date:...
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In your own words
Your map, your language. It is our mission to localize and translate Ushahidi with our community into your language of choice. We know that having a map in the local language increases accessibility...
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The Everyday Peacemakers on our Streets
[This post originally appeared on the Respublica blog, a UK-based thinktank. Guest blog post by Catherine Dempsey, PhD candidate at King's College London, researching innovative uses of technology in...
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Uchaguzi Monitoring And Evaluation Final Report Released
[Guest post by Rhoda Omenya, iHub Research. Rhoda lead the Uchaguzi Monitoring and Evaluation project. Cross-posted from the ihub blog.] iHub Research conducted a 6-month assessment of the Kenya 2013...
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