Tech Soup
MAY 4, 2011
The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred 7 weeks and 4 days ago. As the weeks pass, the disaster recovery is increasingly shifting out of the hands of professional first-responder organizations into the hands of the local NGO community. TechSoup Japan will contact the organization regarding its eligibility in about one week.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 8, 2011
Most people who are familiar with Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform know of it as a cloud platform for building, hosting, and scaling web applications. What few are aware of, however, is that the Windows Azure platform also has the capability of serving communities that have been affected by disasters. Second Harvest in Japan.
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Tech Soup
OCTOBER 10, 2011
And there are all sorts of things you can do with those services, including helping out in disaster recovery. Before the cloud, if you wanted to build a web application (a program that you get to through a browser — Facebook is a good example) you would get yourself a server which would run your application.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
This edition of the App It Up project "Cool App Roundup" highlights different ways apps can be used in disaster, crisis, and emergency situations. Preparing for Disaster. The FEMA app includes preparation guidelines for a variety of disasters, including checklists, safety tips, and local shelter maps.
Byte Technology
OCTOBER 13, 2016
There was a time—not too long ago—that drone technology, while in its infancy, was being dismissed by many experts in product development fields as a passing fancy, a mere hobby or pastime that few people ever thought would have important real-world applications. There isn’t a spot on earth immune from natural or manmade disasters.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2012
The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 9, 2011
The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Twitter uses hashtags.
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