Creative Disruption: Citizen Voices
By Megha Bahree (Courtesy: Forbes.com)
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A Kenyan blogger found a way to get information from the crowd. Now she wants to take the idea to other parts of the world in trouble.
On a recent day in November 15,000 people were pushing up against the barbed wire outside the United Nation's mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma. They were some of the quarter-million refugees who had fled violent clashes in the Congo in the last few weeks, and they were begging for help. Their camps were destroyed, there was no food, no toilets and very little water. Militias were fighting a mere 7 miles to the northeast.
Several hundred miles away in Johannesburg, South Africa, Ory Okolloh was receiving reports from the scene verified by an NGO, and uploading them onto a public Web site. Okolloh, 31, created the site using Ushahidi, a free piece of software that quickly creates Web sites to which eyewitnesses of war and crisis in out-of-reach places can send news by e-mail or text and have it attached to a Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) map. For more details click Forbes.com - Magazine Article |
| Kenyan Community in Lesotho celebrate Heroes Day with H. E. Tom Amolo in Maseru |
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H.E. The High Commissioner, accompanied by other staff members from the Kenya High Commission in Pretoria during the commemoration of Heroes Day in Maseru, Lesotho. 25th Oct '08 |
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A Heroes Day cake above which was shared among the guests who turned up for the celebration at Maseru Sun Hotel. 25th Oct '08 |
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Above: Kenyan Diplomats and their families with the event manager in Maseru. (From L-R) Mrs. Waweru, Mrs. Sikudi, Mrs. Ateka (host at Maseru), Mrs. Atika, Jaque (partly hidden), Mrs. Soita, Mrs. Weche, Mrs. Omondi, Miss Omondi and Schilden (Kenyan Professional). Right H.E. Tom Amolo with the Lesotho Government Secretary (Head of Public Service) Mr. Sekamane. 25th Oct '08
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Above: H.E. The High Commissioner, with male members of staff from the Kenya High Commission in Pretoria while at Maseru. (L-R) Richard, Kangethe (Financial Attache), Col. Waweru (Defence Advisor), Amb. Tom Amolo (The High Commissioner), Hophney, Ombachi (Agricutural Attache), Kamau (host Kenyan), Ratshidi and a Kenyan in Diaspora.
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| Mrs. Waweru, Schilden and a Kenyan in Diaspora wearing Kenyan tradional outfits. 25th Oct '08 |
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| H. E. The High Commissioner hosts a dinner in Honor of the two Public Service Ministers, Hon. Dalmas Otieno (Kenya) and Hon. Richard Baloyi (South Africa) |
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Top Row: (L-R) Hon. Richard Baloyi (left) of South Africa addressing the guests as Hon. Dalmas Otieno looks on at the High Commissioners residence in Pretoria; Dignitaries arrive during the function; Hon. Baloyi with a colleague.
Second Row: (L-R) Mr. Wilson Kangethe and his family with H. e. the High Commissioner, Mr. Tom Amolo; Guests with the High Commissioner; Ann Githuku Shongwe of the UN (2nd Right) with other guests. 16th October 2008 |
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