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1. Ushahidi: A Finalist in the Knight Batten Awards! linked to this post on 6 August 2008

   [...] noreply@blogger.com (Mel Coker) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt… 2008 presidential campaign, and deliver hyperlocal coverage of development in the District of Columbia’s most neglected quadrant – are finalists for the Grand Prize in this year’s Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.” [...]

2. What Hath God Wrought · linked to this post on 8 August 2008

   [...] News » News Ushahidi: A Finalist in the Knight Batten Awards!2008-08-08 19:36:10We’Re be one month in about one of the four finalist for the Knight Batten [...]

3. Doc, George and Washington’s two senators · linked to this post on 9 August 2008

   [...] News » News Ushahidi: A Finalist in the Knight Batten Awards!2008-08-09 07:36:51We’Re be one month in about one of the four finalist for the Knight Batten [...]

4. Glenda Cooper: When lines between NGO and news organization blur » Nieman Journalism Lab linked to this post on 21 December 2009

   [...] In January 2008, Ushahidi (which means testimony in Swahili) was set up by four bloggers and technological experts. As Lokman Tsui explains in his essay in this series, the mashup used Google Earth technology to map incidents of crime and violence with ordinary people reporting incidents via SMS, phone or email. Ushahidi has been so successful that it was awarded a $200,000 grant from Humanity United to develop a platform that can be used around the world, and the website received an honourable mention in the 2008 Knight-Batten awards. [...]