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Kenya: Vote for ushahidi.com

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 @ 17:50 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: Kenya
Topics:: Software & Tools, Technology

Daudi asks his readers to vote for ushahidi.com: “I have lost count of the number of radio and print interviews that have come my way because of interest in the project. Now Ushahidi needs your help again. Ushahidi has been entered in to the $100,000 Netsquared Mashup Challenge for further development. This is big in very many ways. It helps secure the future of the project and it helps secure the independence of the project, it allows the project to grow beyond Kenya, it give the opportunity for a powerful and increasingly necessary tool to achieve its potential.”

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Mwangi - the Displaced African

How cool would it be if they won. This combined with the citizen media that is discussed in this other post http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/06/africa-vloggers-bloggers-and-movies/
and we could actually have an Africa where the news is by the people for the people and in the interests of the people. What a beautiful, novel situation.

# 2008-03-7 at 5:24 am

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