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Congratulations to the Harassmap and Qiantang River teams:
Harassmap won a BOB for Best Use of Technology for Social Good
Part of the Ushahidi team in Kenya recorded this short video to congratulate Harassmap.
Qiantang River Map won the Technology Application Award of the 2012 China Intel Social Innovation Prize and its US $16,000 prize money.
Offline Online App has been submitted to the finals for the International Space Apps Challenge in the category of Citizen Science. Here is their video: Evan Sims and Brian Herbert moved Crowdmap to new infrastructure. Databases are now properly replicated, the webserver has been switched to Nginx and is being load balanced. Crowdmap will now be able to handle larger loads of traffic and should have less disruption to individual deployments in the future.About: What plans, projects, and ideas do you have?
Gabriel White of Small Surfaces is consulting with the Ushahidi team to research and provide some UX feedback for Ushahidi products. He previously assisted us with the feedback from the Ushahidi Evaluation and Ushahidi Toolkits. We are attempting to incorporate deployer feedback better into our software designs. You can continue to add your thoughts here.
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Citizen Lab, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Open Net Initiative are hosting a Cyber Security Research and Policy Workshop: Issues for Latin America in Panama. Heather Leson will be presenting about Lessons Learned from Emergency Response and Election Monitoring. (May 6 - 10, 2012)
World Economic Forum on Africa: Representing Ushahidi in dialogue about Crowdsourcing, governance and growth. Juliana will be meeting with various organizations and individuals from May 9th-11th.
Ushahidi will also be hosting a small roundtable on Education, Technology and Open Data at the iHub on the 15th of May.
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Jennifer Chan and Heather Leson met to discuss the next level of connecting academic research to software change. This includes publishing the Use Case studies from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative - Knight joint project in late May.