Social Media and Haiti
Posted On: January 21st, 2010
Posted By: lhamilton
A widget I created for Crisis Camp activists to share updates from victims of the Haitian earthquake and aid agencies on the ground. Crisis Camps were set up nationwide to develop tech and social media tools for Haitian relief efforts.
People in Haiti were directed to text their location and medical needs. Those texts were entered into a database where volunteers translated them from Kreyol into English. The location coordinates of the person sending the text message were then overlayed onto a map on ushahidi.com.
This widget collects the updates of those text messages. I made the widget for the purposes of raising awareness about the situation on the ground and for activists and relief workers to post on their websites.
Primary Issues:
Other
Advocacy Practices:
Internet-Network Centric
Media-Communication
Networking-Coalition
Building Outreach-Grassroots
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