Hi everyone,
Blogging for International Disaster Relief Day is up and running;
bloggers have started to post disaster relief-related resources all over
the Internet.
How to see what's being posted:
I'm aggregating participating blogs in a digest on this page:
(please circulate widely)
Hi everyone,
Many people have been asking me how they can use their Internet skills
to help out with hurricane victims. I've been asking bloggers to blog.
Now I'd like to ask photographers to photograph -- and help reunite
victims with their families.
I'd like to
From: Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Sep 01 14:25:42 CDT 2005
To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [DDN] Hurricane Katrina mobcast launched
Just a comment to add: I am a retired Army signal Corps type, and I have been
looking for reports of
As of late last night, the Astrodome was full and evacuees were being
diverted to other sites. We have an internal TFA meeting this morning to
update everyone working on the Astrodome Community Technology Center
(CTC) project. The minor change in plans is that we now expect to be
working on the
These Net-Gold posts may be of interest to readers of this list.
From: David P. Dillard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri Sep 2, 2005 6:45 am
Subject: HURRICANES: HURICANE: KATRINA : Craigslist New Orleans
Housing || Wikipedia Article About Katrina
Andy,
Thanks for the note. A little brainstorming from the list regarding
unique curriculum resources, tools and creative programming ideas would
be helpful. These will be CTC clients with heavy burdens. We need to
prepare our volunteers appropriately with the resources they need to be
most
You can look up the Development Gateway's e-government portal. There's a
key issues (left column) on e-democracy:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/egovernment
Hope this helps
Nadia Afrin
Content Coordinator
Development Gateway
Phone: 202 572 9258
ICT for Development
I am a little naïve when it comes to phone blogging, so forgive the
ignorance in my question -- efforts to improve communications post-Katrina,
and to help put missing persons in touch with family have got me thinking
about different opportunities.
So my question is: are technologies out there
See below for a request for help from Joyce Raby, Legal Services
Corporation.
Original Message
Subject: [RIDERS-TALK] Legal Services Corporation needs disaster
recovery advice
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:12:01 -0400
From: Joe Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL
Please help the librarians of NOPL reconnect. Their webserver and mailserver
are not working. Share widely.
Karen
-Original Message-
NOPL Contact List: post-Katrina
http://nopl.blogspot.com
Tony Barnes reports, Kim Tran staffer moved my old files there and is
continuing [to update
Probably doesn't exist yet. Similar to what we hope to develop with an
open source mobcasting tool. Will concentrate on that another day
ac
Lars Hasselblad Torres wrote:
I am a little naïve when it comes to phone blogging, so forgive the
ignorance in my question -- efforts to improve
More info here:
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2005/09/after_you_donat.html
Rebecca
--
Rebecca MacKinnon
Research Fellow, Berkman Ctr. for Internet Society
www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org
The world is talking. Are you listening?
Weblog: www.RConversation.com
North Korea zone:
You may be interested in two articles that I wrote for the American Canadian
Association Newsletter in Peru about government transparency efforts in Peru
with some links to background papers from international organizations. The
links are:
Government Transparency: A Key to Strengthening
Adrianos, nice to receive your post. I would recommend that you take a look
at Minnesota eDemocracy and some of the experiences in Scandinavian
countries -- a good place to start might be in Steve Clift's democracies
online site, http://dowire.org/wiki/Main_Page
Also, the National Science
I posted a message on my blog today suggesting ways GIS could be used. We're
piloting these in the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Visit the Program Locator at
www.tutormentorexchange.net to see what we are doing.
The important thing to recognize about using GIS in the disaster areas is
that you need a
More info on this subject below.
Michael F. Pitsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Finally, the article that generated so many comments this week is Verizon's
so-called deal referring to the recent $14.95 offer from everyone's
favorite telco. Heated debate on whether or not it's a good deal.
(please circulate widely)
Hi everyone,
For those of you willing to volunteer and photograph evacuees or collect
photos of the missing from bulletin boards and websites, here are some
instructions.
If you have a Flickr.com account, upload photos and tag them either as:
katrinamissing for
Hello Taran,
Good to lear another thing from you ... The Alert
Retrieval Cache concept. I have been away from telco
too long. It is new to me.
But can this be set up in advance? What I mean is can
it be something just like 911 for example. It is there
and every knows it. When it is emergency
I am sure we can set this up.
Please leave your name, zipcode, and phone # where you can be reached. I
belive skype or gizmo can use custom greetings so it would be easier.
We could then direct it to a folder and have it upload the audio right
away and then follow-up with the text of the
There is something you can do today to help people streaming out of New Orleans.
I called one of the churches that is taking in refugees. They need lots of
supplies.
You can gather together a bag of supplies (see list below).
Go to the Post Office an get a Priority box - flat fee (choice of two
With thousands of students affected by Hurricane Katrina forced to improvise on
their fall-semester plans, many are inquiring about taking classes elsewhere.
CSU Monterey Bay, located on California's Central Coast 2 hours south of San
Francisco, is ready to assist those students.
Our campus is
Andy Carvin wrote:
Probably doesn't exist yet. Similar to what we hope to develop with an
open source mobcasting tool. Will concentrate on that another day
ac
It's probably simpler than the mobcasting system. I think all Lars
wants is for people to be able to enter text and numbers via
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Hi everyone,
I've just received a whole bunch of posts to the list that are either
pro- or anti-Pat Roberston rants. This is not the place. Please keep the
list focused on the digital divide and constructive things we can do to
help the recovery efforts. Please take the partisan fighting
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