Showing 55 to 58 of 58 blog posts in the social innovation category.
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OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 2: Text Parsing and Entity Extraction
This is the second post in our OpenRural series reviewing OpenBlock and it's geocoder. OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding covers the internals of the OpenBlock... Read more
December 16, 2011 -
Scraping Data and Web Standards
We're currently involved in a project with the UNC School of Journalism that hopes to help rural newspapers in North Carolina leverage OpenBlock. The project is called OpenRura... Read more
December 6, 2011 -
An alternative RapidSMS router implementation (with Celery!)
We've been using RapidSMS, a Django-powered SMS framework, more and more frequently here at Caktus. It's evolved a lot over the past year-- from being reworked to feel more like... Read more
July 18, 2011 -
HIV Results, Birth Reminders, and Clinic Communication in Malawi
I recently returned from a 6 week trip in Malawi, where I was heavily involved in the implementation and deployment of Project Mwana, an Information and Communication Technology... Read more
December 29, 2010