Wednesday was World AIDS Day, December 1st. In case you missed it, we unveiled a collaboration that had us working with (PRODUCT) RED and number of their partners to launch a campaign that allowed users of social media to participate in a global campaign to ways awareness of that fact that it’s possible that by 2015 child will be born with the AIDS virus.
The first deployment of Ushahidi in Russia – the “Help Map” project (Russian-fires.ru) that worked as a mutual aid coordination platform during unprecedented wildfires last summer – received the most prestigious award of the Russian Internet.
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We’re extremely pleased to finally announce version 2.0 (Luanda) of the Ushahidi platform. This release marks the end of many months of work on new functionality and bug fixes based on feedback we’ve received.
Highlights of Ushahidi 2.0 1. Plugins
This is a guest blogpost from Nick Doiron. He is a civil engineering student and GIS programmer in his senior year at Carnegie Mellon University. For CrisisCamp DC, he also developed an offline mapping activity which can display Ushahidi data on the OLPC XO laptop.
Focus group with Liberia's civil society leaders
