The non-profit software company that develops open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

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Ushahidi is one of the better-known success stories, developing open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

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Like Microsoft before it, Google cultivates developers, with all-day mapping conferences, lunches with Schmidt, work on new coding languages and open-source development, and almost daily postings of new code and product information on a company blog.

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"There's a huge synergy there, in astronomers trying to find the influence of dark matter by mapping stars and galaxies and large structures in the universe, and particle physicists trying to discover the source of that influence of dark matter through subatomic particles here on Earth, " said Jason Kalirai, deputy project scientist for the telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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