Ethan Zuckerman of Harvard's Berkman Center & Global Voices: Kenyan mobile network maps violence

Ethan Zuckerman, who specializes in the implementation of transformative technological innovations in developing countries, talks about a project, which upended notions about election violence in Kenya. Ushahidi, which resulted from the recent elections there, is a web-based system that allows people to send in reports via text message, SMS, or send photos or videos, MMS.

In this video interview, Zuckerman shares his ideas Ushahidi and mobile reporting with Ideas Project, a new website brought to you by Nokia. Ideas Project is an online space that provides a new way to interact with thought leaders and their big ideas about the future of connected communications. For more on this idea from Zuckerman, visit http://www.ideasproject.com.

Ethan Zuckerman is a multifaceted thinker whose work focuses on the impact of technology in developing countries. A co-founder of web hosting venture Tripod, and social ventures Geekcorps and Global Voices, Zuckerman has catalyzed the implementation of over a hundred technology projects throughout the world. He is currently a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, where his projects include a study of global media attention, research on the use of weblogs and other social software in the developing world, and work on online censorship and anti-censorship technologies. Ethan was given the 2002 Technology in Service of Humanity Award by MIT's Technology Review Magazine and named to the TR100, TR's list of innovators under the age of 35. In 1993, Ethan graduated from Williams College with a BA in Philosophy. In 1993-4, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Legon, Ghana and the National Theatre of Ghana, studying ethnomusicology and percussion.

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