'Crisis Tracker' Maps Atrocities in Africa

Two nonprofit rights groups are bringing technology to bear on a rebel group that has terrorized Uganda and central Africa for more than two decades. Mashable takes note of a digital mapping service called LRA Crisis Tracker that provides real-time accounts of assaults, kidnappings, and worse committed by the infamous Lord's Resistance Army. The project, from Invisible Children and Resolve, is intended not only to raise awareness, but to help government agencies get a better handle on the violence. (Read more Lord's Resistance Army stories.)