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Can You Help Jeff Jackson Find His Godson in Chile?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Located the family I lived with in Chile. RT @JeffVallarta #Chile, help me find godson Amaro $ family: Eric Rojas e Ingrid Sepulveda, Melepilla, 601-5063, 8-568-5570, 9-423-1180. 8) Using information from Crisis Commons and Ushahidi (9) Networking with professional colleagues online by leaving messages on their FB or Twitter.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. The American Red Cross is now looking into how best to give the public an increased role in disaster response. BUT, what if we did invite the public to provide situational awareness such as telling us about the elderly people on a hill?

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations. Social media has radically changed how people communicate, including their calls for help.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. I was going to list all the countries where they send computers, but it’s just too long. Suffice to say that they’re a leader in the U.S.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Miguel Paz, the founder of Hacks/Hackers Chile in partnership with Mariano Blejman of Argentina’s Hacks/Hackers network , and with the support of the World Bank Institute’s Global Media Development program intends to open data from across Latin America through their OpenData Latinoamérica project. Image: NetSquared.