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Apps for America: Snapvote
I came across the Sunlight Foundation’s “Apps for America” contest last week, and it reminded me of a side-project that I started that never got off the ground a couple years back. Add in today’s US...
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Nate Silver: Race, Prediction and the US Election
Math whiz and baseball fan Nate Silver was mainly known for predicting outcomes in fantasy ballgames — until his technique hit a home run calling the outcome of the 2008 election primaries. He’s now a...
View ArticleMy (short) TED Talk on Ushahidi
I was fortunate enough to be at TED this year as a Fellow. While there, I did a short TED University talk on the roots of Ushahidi, where it’s going and a new initiative called Swift River. Needless...
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Uchaguzi: Full-Circle on Kenya’s Elections
Just over 5 years ago, I was just like everyone else tuning into the social media flow of blogs, tweets and FB updates along with reading the mainstream media news about the Kenyan elections. We all...
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Kenya’s 2013 IEBC Election Tech Problems
TL;DR – Kenya’s IEBC tech system failed. I started a site to collect notes and facts, read it and you’ll be up to date on what’s currently known. Kenya’s IEBC (Independent Electoral and Boundaries...
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A 2013 Uchaguzi Retrospective
UPDATE: Here’s the report put together by the iHub Research team (3Mb PDF): Uchaguzi Kenya 2013 The elections in Kenya this year have had a lot of drama, nothing new there. As I wrote about last week,...
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Reports on m:lab and Umati
This week two reports have come out of the iHub community. m:lab East Africa after 2 years The study which was conducted between April and May 2013 focused on 3 key activity areas at the m:lab namely:...
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