I've been following the work of Ushahidi for a while now. They've come up with an emergency response system for Haiti based on short text messages and Kreyol-speaking volunteers with intimate knowledge of their locations. They make this data available to other organizations. I'm really impressed by the design of this entire system; especially how technology is lowest-common-denominator and hardly matters, and people form the core of the system. Here's a blog post from their site explaining how the system works:
http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/22/the-nuts-and-bolts-behind-4636-in-haiti/ The system is in place and working now, having been designed and implemented in a matter of days. Most impressive whole-system design work I've run across in a very long time. -- Michael Micheletti [email protected] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
