Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Examples from Haiti. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Social media tools allowed for distribution of roles/responsibilities across the community (including garnering press coverage). Ushahidi : most recently, Ushahidi adpated it’s platform for use in Haiti and Chili to let the crowd both in Haiti/Chili and outside share information and data in real time via mobiles or a web browser.

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

From there they traversed Long Island Sound to New London, Connecticut, and then drove to Boston. Somewhere during the frenzied media coverage of Hurricane Sandy, the press stopped using the word “hurricane.” In Haiti, for example, which was not even in the storm’s direct path, Sandy wiped out 40% of the autumn crop.

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Network Build Sierra Leone Hurricane 111