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Riding the wave of disruption?
Back in May I participated in a discussion on if and how International Civil Society Organizations (ICSOs) are adapting to changes around them. Here’s my summary of the conversations: Can International Civil Society Organizations be nimble?
Report: Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa
A couple months back Omidyar Network released a report (with an exhaustively long title, like all reports tend to have), “Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa: Understanding Africa’s Challenges to Creating Opportunity-driven Entrepreneurship.“.
Reports on m:lab and Umati
This week two reports have come out of the iHub community.
m:lab East Africa after 2 years
The study which was conducted between April and May 2013 focused on 3 key activity areas at the m:lab namely:
New report: Who Cares? Challenges and opportunities in communicating distant suffering
Image captured from page 19 of the Polis report.
Key Deployments and Lessons Learned – Part 1
Recently we began conducting research into the use of our various products around the world, assessing impact and use, apparent successes, perceived and critical failures, as well as qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the data collected from each platform. What’s perhaps, different about this particular document is that it also looks at non-crisis deployments like Vacant NYC.
United States Institute of Peace Report on Ushahidi-Haiti
As many fans and supporters of Ushahidi recall, the Ushahidi−Haiti Project raised the profile of crisis mapping to a new level. It demonstrated the potential of crowdsourced maps for targeted disaster response to a broad and empowered audience and provided a useful foundational model for the international community to leverage and improve upon in advance of future emergencies.
ICT, emergencies and conflicts
Following their recent examination of the mHealth landscape, the UN/Vodafone Foundation partnership today turned their attention to a new topic – “New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts“.
