Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The Work AI suite also includes a Glean Actions tool, which enables the AI assistant to directly take action on an employees behalf within a companys connected applications. Actions could involve reading data from an application and executing a specific task, creating Jira tickets, publishing new content, or searching for code.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

“Businesses scrambled to transition their everyday processes to contactless alternatives; however, these applications often relied on an internet connection to function effectively. And the open source, Airbyte-owned Grouparoo replicates info between databases and cloud-based tools.

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See3

JUNE 22, 2009

They made it open-source and invited anyone who wanted to add actions to the database or develop new applications using the database. For example, a post about a round of whale killing in Japan might like to a Greenpeace action against whaling. He called this Social Actions.

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TechNode

APRIL 21, 2024

This demand is roughly equivalent to Japans annual electricity consumption. To scale foundation model applications while controlling computing costs, continuous optimization of hardware performance is required, along with better software hardware integration and algorithmic efficiency improvements.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. Nominet Trust is a leading social technology funder in the UK. See the map here. Netflix for E-books. All Things D.

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