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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This past year, we’re getting most of our content directly from top publishers: high-quality digital content for free. The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many).