Home - African Law Library - AfricanLawLibrary.net - AfricanLawLibrary.net. African Innovation Foundation. About. Welcome to the MYC4 blog – a conversation about ‘business for a profit and profit for a purpose’. The blog is about MYC4. It is also about Africa, business, poverty, innovation and igniting change. And it is about what you can do. MYC4 is an on-line platform that connects you directly with African entrepreneurs who lack capital do develop their businesses. See our short film on the front page to see how it works. Want to participate in the dialog? Comments Policy: The comments field on posts is open for you to give feedback to MYC4.
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We’re a small organization, so be patient with us. Like this: Like Loading... About us | End Poverty. About Us. We are a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. We build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. We’re a disruptive organization that is willing to take risks in the pursuit of changing the traditional way that information flows.
Our History “Ushahidi”, which means “testimony” in Swahili, was a website that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Since then, the name “Ushahidi” has come to represent the people behind the “Ushahidi Platform”. Our roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis. The original website was used to map incidents of violence and peace efforts throughout the country based on reports submitted via the web and mobile phones. Emeka_okafor (emeka_okafor) Jon Gosier (jongos) Appfrica (appfrica) 10 African tech voices to follow on Twitter.