NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoup.org - disaster

A Cry for HELP

disasterlogistics — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:38:57 -0400

This is the story of a 1 year 2 month old boy born to an 18 year old mother on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. This report/plea for assistance came in recently from a Philippine Physician at one of the remote rural clinics HELP visited during "Needs Assessment" operations recently.

Learn how you can help at the end of this story.

Assetmap.org/Uganda as a transition tool from UN-OCHA?

nlwhittemore — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:57:12 -0400

Could assetmap.org/uganda be used as a transition tool for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs?

While the United Nations is routinely assailed for bureaucratic clunkiness, inefficiency, or even corruption, its important to recognize the absolutely vital role that its offices play in "complex man-made emergencies" (also known as "wars") and natural disaster relief.

H.E.L.P. Wins 2007 Award of Excellence in New Communications

disasterlogistics — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:44:30 -0500

Payson, AZ 12/10/07 - HELP (www.disasterlogistics.org) is pleased to announce that it is a recipient of a 2007 Award of Excellence in the mobile media ca

HIgh Tech Disaster Response

disasterlogistics — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:39:04 -0400

HELP's much anticipated mobile telemedicine clinic known as "Doc-in-a-Box" was unveiled during Operations "Golden Phoenix" and "Freedom's Ring" recently.

The joint military and civilian disaster exercises were conducted in California and Arizona. The exercise simulated a massive 8.0 earthquake in the Los Angeles basin area. If such an earthquake were to hit massive numbers of people would be expected to evacuate into Arizona.

Follow the San Diego Fire on Twitter, Blogs and Flickr

Britt Bravo — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:40:09 -0400

Holly Ross' post on the NTEN Blog, Community Tweets in the SoCal Fires, gives you links to individuals and organizations reporting news from the fires on blogs and Twitter.

This Flickr photo, Red Sky by Morning, San Diegans Take Warning, was taken by SL Working2 . You can see more photos of the fires in the San Diego, San Diego Fire and Southern California Fires - 2007 Flickr Pools.

Update: A Google Map of the fire is also available.

Net2Podcast: iCare, Humanlink and Using the Web for Disaster Relief

Britt Bravo — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:20:20 -0400

Last month's Net Tuesday in San Francisco featured Ephrat Bitton of iCare and Jonathan Thompson of Humanlink talking about how to use the Web for disaster relief.

You can hear recordings of their presentations and their interviews with our Net Tuesday Podcaster, David Collin of FI Space, on the NetSquared Podcast.

H.E.L.P.'s International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Medical Clinic Network: An Interview with Randy Roberson

Britt Bravo — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:45:25 -0400

"What we have done is we've deployed and completed the first of what we're calling a "doc in a box". It's a 20 foot cargo container, shipping container, like you see on ships going overseas. On the outside, it looks pretty much like any other container. On the inside is a complete medical clinic, complete with a lot of different telemedicine equipment and satellite uplink gear that enables us to bring a patient wherever this is dropped off, anywhere in the world."

iCare: Direct Person-to-Person Charity for Efficient Disaster Relief

Britt Bravo — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:04:10 -0400

The BBC reported today in, Web Tool to Help Survivors Cope, about a disaster relief system that would connect survivors and donors directly using the Internet, and make delivery of supplies by truck more efficient:

In the iCare system survivors report what they need via web terminals in aid centres or using text messages sent via mobile phones. Their requests are then routed to the companies, organisations or individuals that can provide exactly what they need.
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Disaster Planning and IT - Tips for Your Nonprofit

Britt Bravo — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:29:51 -0400

TechSoup, our mother organization, is having a free online event, Disaster Planning, Recovery and IT for Your Nonprofit, May 9-11 in its Tech Planning Community Forum. No registration is required.

Topics will include:
• Safety issues in disaster preparedness.
• Reducing the risk of a disaster.
• Disaster planning and IT.
• Offline measures you can take to prevent a data disaster.

Thanks for your vote for HELP

disasterlogistics — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:34:45 -0400

Thank you for your votes.

Thanks to you and the assistance this NetSquared competition offers, our efforts to meet the medical needs of people (including specifically the ones pictured here) will be greatly increased.