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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

We discussed the challenges and opportunities around codifying an online request code, what role mobile must play, the needs for increased capacity and public education. Working in a Baton Rouge shelter, he saw children looking for their parents, and parents looking for their children, yet matching them was difficult.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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