Tag Archives: Plan International
A Ray of Sunshine
February 6, 2010… and aid workers in a position to help directly. NGOs like Oxfam, the Clinton Foundation, Plan International, and American Red Cross are this minute benefiting from Ushahidi data in the field in Haiti.
At a relative’s work last week, they organized a bake sale – which is a somewhat more traditional way to help those in need in Haiti (and from which I again benefit indirectly). This is all well and good and hopefully when the money in the cookie jar eventually finds its way …
Tags: American Red Cross earthquake Haiti Oxfam Plan International the Clinton Foundation Ushahidi
American Red Cross, earthquake, Haiti, Oxfam, Plan International, the Clinton Foundation, Ushahidi | 4 CommentsNet cops: cybercrime and the crowd
February 3, 2011… Head of Europol (Europe’s answer to the CIA) Rob Wainwright recently announced his plan to get the masses directly involved in stopping online bad guys.
Basically, the problem is that after twenty years of the web there’s still no concrete data on the scope and extent of cybercrime. We’re not just talking criminal mastermind level stuff here, but also everyday offenses: email scams, security attacks, credit card fraud – the bread and butter of the online underworld. Why …
Management
December 4, 2009… At Microtask he is responsible for running the company, fiscal planning and the business plan.
Otto Chrons, CTO
Otto is an entrepreneur and technologist. He has 15 years of experience in software development, with particular interest in mobile, security and graphics technology. Otto has an exceptional understanding of a broad range of technological issues and a passion for innovation. Otto has successfully grown a start-up to a medium-sized company which was then …
Better shred than read: DARPA uses competitive crowdsourcing to revive destroyed documents
January 12, 2012… As if things weren’t already hard enough for them, crooked bankers , deposed dictators and international super villains have one more thing to worry about. Having spent their last hours of freedom shredding incriminating evidence into neat strips, they might have thought they could get away with their misdeeds. It turns out however that those shredded documents might not be as unreadable as they thought.
Our old friends at DARPA (or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency if …
Hatforce: your friendly crowd of hackers
November 17, 2011… online hazard – like trolls, 404 pages and inappropriate Nazi analogies.
Take the international “hactivism” group Anonymous (these guys are like WikiLeaks’ crazy kid brother). Back in April, Anonymous successfully obtained the credit card numbers of over 70 million Playstation users, exposing major security flaws at Sony. Just a few days ago, the same thing happened to gaming distribution platform Steam. Details are still emerging but Gabe Newell, Steam …
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