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I accidentally bumped into this site whose purpose is “crowd-sourcing crisis information”. (Sorry; bad metaphor.) Initial deployments still in alpha, but should be interesting to follow in the coming months, especially in light of the value demonstrated by the Twitter platform during the recent siege in Mumbai.
Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

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Several recent posts I want to call attention to…
First, a very interesting discussion on the OSGeo-discuss list kicked off by Tyler Mitchell, who posted a request to the list for examples of how open source software has made employees more valuable in their jobs. The discussion was gently steered to whether one can conduct the [...]

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