Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 17, 2011
Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Indirect Content.
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VisionLink
APRIL 24, 2015
VisionLink is also proud to be doing our part to improve access to services for vulnerable children and orphans in Haiti, with a new program launching in June. Using our 211 / I&R experience, we are deploying an online resource database, mapping and research tool that connects users to a range of services, including health programs.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 15, 2010
In partnering with the White House, National Lab Day, and videogame makers Sony and EA, the Digital media and Learning Competitions has prizes up to $200,000 and is open to all kinds of innovative projects (including games) that make use of digital media for education and social change. Submissions close January 22, 2010."
AFP Blog
JANUARY 28, 2010
New technology tools help Haiti earthquake relief - NashuaTelegraph.com: "Volunteers have built and refined software for tracking missing people, mapping the disaster area and enabling urgent cell-phone text messaging. Organizations including the International Red Cross, the United Nations, the World Bank and the U.S.
Tech Soup
APRIL 22, 2013
The Esri ArcGIS app (Windows 8) is useful for organizations that wish to build their own relief-related maps. The app lets you preview different data skews and features from Esri's mapping software. Read about how Pocket First Aid & CPR helped save a life in the Haiti Earthquake of 2010. Government Agency Apps.
Tech Soup
MARCH 29, 2017
Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.
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