Connection Cafe
JANUARY 20, 2010
In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. Find a charity with a proven track record of success in providing disaster relief and one that has worked in Haiti. Do Not Give To The Haitian Government – Haiti is known to be a corrupt country. Author: Jordan Viator.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 28, 2011
The correlation found in Haiti is an example of a "confounding factor". You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability. A correlation was found between building damage and SMS streams, but only because both were correlated with the simple existence of buildings. .
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Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2012
A similar example is that of an Atlanta city councilman who chose to post a message to Twitter asking for a medic to respond to an unconscious woman on the street rather than to dial 911 when his mobile phone battery was very low. There have to be other criteria for defining and evaluating innovation. We can’t only invest in new.
NTEN
MARCH 18, 2010
CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 13, 2012
They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. When they evacuated from their small island, I reminded them to take their cell phones and chargers. In Haiti, for example, which was not even in the storm’s direct path, Sandy wiped out 40% of the autumn crop. They could not cook.
NTEN
MARCH 18, 2010
CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps.
Get Fully Funded
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. If you have a phone number, you should call, but only if you are pitching a strong story that might be of interest to the journalist. If you still don’t get any response, re-evaluate your pitch.
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