Dear Colleagues, I just want to mention a vision that a few of us in the Katrina PeopleFinder Project group have been discussing.
What if we got together with the national CityCares / Hands On Network <http://www.handsonnetwork.org/our-network/> and the Community Technology Center Network <http://www.ctcnet.org>? What if the Hands On Network recruited volunteers (to be trained by the Katrina PeopleFinder Project) who would be willing to go to local CTCs in the event of an emergency, in order to process data about missing persons, or to help distraught loved ones who are searching for evacuees to enter queries into the PeopleFinder database? If we had a network of previously-trained national or international volunteers - and sites to which they could report - in advance of emergencies - then the folks who were in unaffected regions would have an immediate way to help those in need. What do you think? Best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
