Hi everyone,
It's been amazing watching Technology for All's impromptu Astrodome
community technology center evolve over the last few days. I've been
following it with keen interest at the blog they've set up:
http://texasctcs.blogspot.com/
Will Reed and his team moved with extraordinary speed to get the CTC up
and running. I'd be very interested in hearing if other organizations
have started to set up similar CTCs at evacuation centers near them. For
example, it turns out that Cape Cod's Otis Air National Guard Station,
about 90 minutes from Boston, will play host to evacuees in the coming
days, weeks and months. What would it take to get a CTC established
there, as well as other refugee centers? Given the huge amount of
hurricane-related information that's available online - particularly
related to missing/found persons - it seems that we should demand that
all official evacuation centers have some kind of CTC up and running there.
I'm not looking for an academic discussion here; instead, I'd like to
see how we can outline clear, actionable steps that can be taken to move
this forward in a matter of days. We as DDN members have immense
resources and skills among us - how can we go about mobilizing our
collective abilities now?
ac
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://katrina05.blogspot.com
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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