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    Ory Okolloh

    Ushahidi Builds Community with 3 L's: Listen, Learn, and Leverage

    by Ory Okolloh
    2009 Knight News Challenge Winner

    One of the things we have quickly learned at Ushahidi is that it is about more than just about creating great code/design and an easy-to-use tool -- what really makes everything come together is the people; or, if I can appropriate the term, it's about the peopleware. By this I mean not just the team behind Ushahidi, or the wonderful volunteers who work with us, but the wider community of people using the tool...whether it is a civil society group, an election monitoring group, or the individuals who take the time to submit a report to a Ushahidi deployment. What...

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