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The disaster response network CrisisCommons announced today that it has been funded to the tune of $1.2 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. CrisisCommons is the organization behind scores of CrisisCamps in locations around the world, informal gatherings where technologists have developed mobile, data, analysis, mapping and other tools to use in response to crisis.
What began as an idea at the Government 2.0 unconference in the Spring of 2009, then became a global network of open source crisis response technology hackers aimed at responding to the earthquake in Haiti, floods in Pakistan and the Gulf Oil Spil, is now a formally funded organization.
OpenAds, a free and Open Source ad network with more than 30 thousand installs, has announced a forthcoming hosted version of its service and another round of venture financing. RWW's Sean Ammirati discussed OpenAds and the desirability of a hosted version in a May post here titled Google's Potential Vulnerability - An Open Ad Network
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