Stories and Articles About Our Work

The Knight Foundation released a report today detailing how technology was employed in the aftermath of last year's earthquake in Haiti. The infographic above summarizes some of the key areas, but there's a full report available, too. Read more »

The mapping of Korogocho, an area with about 200,000 people, is meant to make it easier to identify streets, key structures and landmarks that were previously not mapped onto Google Maps.

“One of the things we spend a lot of time thinking about at Google is how we can make the world’s information more accessible and useful to people all over the globe. This includes providing rich local geographic data because a huge number of search queries have a geographic component,” said Joe Mucheru, Google’s sub-Saharan Africa leader. Read more »

Fears of a Humanitarian Crisis

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), over 120,000 people have arrived in Southern Sudan since the beginning of November 2010, drawn by fears about their citizenship rights in a divided Sudan and longing for a better life at home. Read more »

Gaitho says the indictment of a journalist by the International Criminal Court (ICC) might cause some to pass  judgment on the Kenyan media as a whole. “Not so,” says Gaitho, “it’s the indictment of an individual journalist.”

For Henry Maina, East Africa Director of Article XIX, a human rights group campaigning for freedom of expression, it is a moment the media should seize to concretize plans for better self-regulation. Read more »