Tag Archive: Usahidi

Repost: Update from Harrassmap

Conclusions from HarassMap’s First Progress Report
November 1st, 2010 to December 29th, 2010

From Kodak to the Mobile Phone: Urban Data and the Scientific Life

This is a repost from the Polis blog with my comments (my comments first, polis blog From Kodak to the Mobile Phone below): Thank you for this post. I think that the mobile generation with their ever more powerful mobile technologies are changing how we view, analyze and plan our cities. I work with youth…

Transparency + Accountability = Democracy, Kenya Style

Christabell’s facebook post says it all, a key constitutional referendum in Kenyan is so far violence free, unlike the last trip to the polls a few years ago. In part this is due to citizens (mostly youth!) tweets and posts providing real time monitoring, transparency, accountability …  leading to … Democracy. Uchaguzi (which means “election”…