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Submitted by MobileActive on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 12:58

A video filmed on a mobile phone made history when it won the George Polk Award for Journalism this year. Not only was it the first video to win in the newly-created videography category, it was also the first video in the Polk's 61-year history awarded to an anonymous citizen journalist.

Could you be a FrontlineSMS:Intern?

Submitted by Ken Banks - Kiwanja on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 07:23

Following our recent recruitment drive, this month we’re bringing on board a second software developer and a new FrontlineSMS Project Manager, both based out of our new (donated) London offices. Expect an announcement on that soon. In the meantime, as we continue to build our team – and capacity – to respond to the growing demands and interest in FrontlineSMS, we’re now looking to fill an exciting new position for an Intern.

Submitted by MobileActive on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 10:34

We have been very keen on exposing the security issues related to mobile communications for activists in insecure environments. To that end we have, to date, produced a number of how-to guides that evaluate some of the tools available.
We just added a matrix of available tools that compares existing applications for secure communications more systematically. So, here is the line-up of mobile security resources on MobileActive for easy reference:

Submitted by MobileActive on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 17:51

For community health workers who are far from medical libraries and urban centers, staying up-to-date on the latest medical advancements and disease treatments can be difficult. GUIDE, developed by AED-Satellife, is a conversion and content management system that transforms medical literature into HTML forms that are easily accessible over a mobile phone. 
GUIDE currently runs on smartphones (Samsung I780) in a pilot program in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. For the last year, 50 nurses from three different branches of local hospitals have used mobiles to stay up to date on medical developments. 

Submitted by MobileActive on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:28

Submitted by MobileActive on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 10:17

This review was written by Anne-Ryan Heatwole with Katrin Verclas.

Asking Questions, Verifying Answers

Submitted by Jon on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 02:06

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Sean Conner recently asked a great question about integrating a Question and Answer service like Aardvark or Yahoo Answers into Swiftriver. Here is our approach at Team Swift…

Ushahidi-Chile: Reflections after Week One

Submitted by Jon on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 10:00

Caroline Stauffer is a member of the core SIPA Team deploying the Ushahidi-Chile platform. She is a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where she focuses on International Media and Communications. She spent the past summer working with the Associated Press in Bangkok, and worked for a nongovernmental organization in the Dominican Republic prior to SIPA.

Natural Language Processing with Swift River

Submitted by Jon on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 05:31

One of the core features of Swift River is the Language Computation Core, or SiLCC as we like to call it (Swift Language Computation Component). Users send feeds to SiLCC which, using a number of machine learning techniques, parses the incoming text and extracts relevant keywords. The idea is that these keywords (tags) can then be used to infer taxonomic relationships between content items. Some camps refer to this as semantic programming, others refer to it as artificial intelligence, but the general concept remains the same: helping programs to perform tasks based on a growing series of complex conditions.

Training the Ushahidi-Chile Team in a Flash

Submitted by Jon on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 09:30

Mark Belinsky co-founded Digital Democracy with Emily Jacobi. He serves as Technical Director and brings a background in computer science, sociology and film & media studies. He and Emily have worked closely with Burmese populations since 2007.

Working in the tech sphere, it’s the power and passion that people have that never ceases to astound me. Following the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, people around the world contributed an incredible outpouring of support for the people of Haiti. Now, as that support expands to Chile, it is evident that we are participating in a game changing moment.

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