What is corruption mapping? In the past year, we have seen a rise of corruption tracking maps or maps that include tracking corruption as part of their project. A number of our Deployment of the Weeks have been corruption maps.
There’s a Ghana email list of tech guys that I’m on. Opening my email this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see that a Ghanaian team was pitching last night at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Africa’s Mobile Stats and Facts 2012
Few organizations do as good of a job as Praekelt in creating well-designed applications that are used by millions of people in the continent. A couple times a year, they take that same level of quality and create new videos and resources to better showcase Africa’s tech statistics. Here’s their newest video.
I’m happy to finally be able to publicly announce the Savannah Fund, an accelerator fund focused on finding and investing in East Africa’s highest potential pre-revenue startups.
Happy Friday! In the weekly report, we have a google base map bug fix, two Deployments of the week, some community blog posts and a reminder about the upcoming Community Developer call:
At Ushahidi, we have interacted with various organizations around the world, and the key thing we remember from reaching out to some NGOs in Kenya is that we faced lots of resistance when we began in 2008, with organizations not willing to share data which was often in pdfs and not in machine readable format.
Ushahidi Weekly – 2
This weekly report is for the whole community and team to share what you are working on and what you need help with. Highlight your presentations, events, code and more. (The archive for weekly reports is on the wiki.) Date: March 26 – April 3, 2012
