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- -: Erik Hersman: How texting helped Kenyans survive crisis
April 22, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Erik Hersman: Africa on the rise
November 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Hersman asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war. Between mobile phone innovations like M-PESA, social networking like MXit and entrepreneurial spaces like Maker Faire Africa, Hersman sees innovation and entrepreneurship exploding within some of ...
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Ethan Zuckerman: Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to Global Voices
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Global Voices Online, talks about the reality behind the global community that we Internet users believe ourselves to be living in.
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