Growing and Scaling Ushahidi
It's been an incredibly hectic couple months for us TEDsters at Ushahidi (Juliana Rotich, Ory Okolloh, Henry Addo and myself), as well as the rest of the core team and dev community. We're extremely excited too, as a couple big items have happened that are increasing our speed and accelerating our development:
- Omidyar Network grant
- World Economic Forum "Tech Pioneers" selection
- Hivos grant
- Juliana and Erik selected as Senior TED Fellows (yeah!)
- And, our newest release of the Ushahidi code, named Mogadishu, is due out next week!
One of the products of all this change has been that I've now moved back to Kenya full-time. I'll be here working alongside the other members of the Ushahidi team in Nairobi, and I'll also be building out a physical innovation hub for us to use and as a place for the greater tech community here to be a part of. If you're in the neighborhood, look me up.
If you want to find out more about what Ushahidi is and see it explained succinctly, we just put out a video titled, "what is Ushahidi?":
Cheers,
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