Internews Center for Innovation & Learning

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Story Maps

Geographic information systems (GIS) often has the reputation of being inaccessible, and lacking technical expertise, organizations often have a hard time creating geo-based stories.

How to kickstart innovation in one day: lessons from CauseLabs

On April 3, we hungout with T.J. Cook, the CEO of CauseLabs. For over 10 years, CauseLabs has empowered great causes to move successfully from idea to execution through workshops and full digital product development breakthroughs.

What's the connection between SMS and data security?

On March 21, Sean McDonald of the Social Impact Lab gave a presentation on one of their products, FrontlineSMS. FrontlineSMS is a tool that collects data and monitors communication via SMS.

Development Seed: Creating Custom Tools for Data and Maps

On March 26, the Center hosted a webinar with Nate Smith of Development Seed, an organization that creates custom tools for data and maps to facilitate understanding of complex issues and help citizens and organizations make better decisions.

Reliable Results for Less Money: Using Low-Cost Sensors to Monitor Air Quality

You don’t need a sensor to know which way the smog is blowing. In the most extreme cases, outdoor air pollution can immediately identified even without any special training.

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Blogs

  • Story Maps

    Geographic information systems (GIS) often has the reputation of being inaccessible, and lacking technical expertise, organizations often have a hard time creating geo-based stories. That is about to change: with Story Maps, storytelling through maps has never been easier or more engaging.

Tools

  • Ubuntu

    Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers. 

    Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available free of charge to everybody on the same terms, and funded through a portfolio of services provided by Canonical.

Research

  • What is an information ecosystem? Why does it matter?

    We are currently working on a research project called Embracing Change: The Critical Role of Information, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The first step in the research process was to lay out what we mean by information ecosystems, trace the underlying theories, and articulate key questions that we want the research to answer. We now have a working definition of information ecosystems:  

Welcome

Initiatives

Crowdglobe: an open research platform aimed at informing the future use of crowdsourcing mapping methodologies by highlighting deployments and research in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field.

Harnessing Design for Media Development: exploring methods of Design Research to gain a better understanding of how information and communications are impacting the livelihoods of marginalized communities

Media Map: an initiative to explore, interact with, and analyze data on media development, bringing together comparable data on how media, technology, and communication intersect with traditional development statistics.