Thursday, January 14, 2010

Useful Resource for Haiti Earthquake Updates

I know this is on Lee's blog, but http://haiti.ushahidi.com is a really good website that is constantly being updated with the earthquake updates (e.g., infrastructure and communication status, epicenter mapping, etc.). This site is updated by a group of volunteer crisis mappers that we have been communicating with... and they have also set up an international number for people in Haiti to help identify who is in trouble and where they are:
+44 762 480 2524.

"We would be forever grateful if you could share this number with as many people in Haiti as possible and let them know that this is one way to identify who is in trouble and where they are so that response operations has them on their radar. The site has already been publicized by the Clinton Foundation, UNDP and we’re expecting CNN to cover this as well. Plus, we’ve got 200+ members on the CrisisMappers Google Group who are desperately looking for real-time information so they can plan their response operations accordingly."


So if you are in direct contact with people in Haiti, please pass the number along! As for our status in Cayes, more later today!

2 comments:

Amy Banzaert said...

Thanks so much for the updates, Ryan! Please keep me posted if I can help you at all. Sending my donations to PiH.

Amy Banzaert said...

Also got the updates via Steve ... please give Nothude my love.