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Transcripts: Arabic | Chinese | French | Persian | Russian | Spanish | Urdu SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Alberto, for not only that kind introduction but your and your colleagues’ leadership of this important institution. It’s a pleasure to be here at the Newseum. The Newseum is a monument to some of our most precious freedoms, and I’m grateful for this opportunity to discuss how those freedoms apply to the challenges of the 21 st century. Although I can’t see all of you because in settings like this, the lights are in my eyes and you are in the dark, I know that there are many friends and former colleagues. I wish to acknowledge Charles Overby, the CEO of Freedom Forum here at the Newseum; Senator Edward Kaufman and Senator Joe Lieberman, my former colleagues in the Senate, both of whom worked for passage of the Voice Act, which speaks to Congress’s and the American people’s commitment to internet freedom, a commitment that crosses party lines and branches of government.
WikiProject Haiti/Press info - OpenStreetMap
This is just a first draft for a page that informs members of the press as well as other media about the ongoing efforts in mapping haiti. Feel free to amend. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways. Within the OpenStreetMap project a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, called HOT, has formed.
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Handover in Haiti – The Ushahidi Blog
[Guest blog post: Jonathan Shuler is the multimedia journalist behind several Ushahidi videos. He has collaborated on the "Haiti trilogy" that includes Haiti 4636 and Ushahidi Haiti .] When was the last time you thought about the 2005 Tsunami in South East Asia? Thousands of people died, the GDP of many coastal economies in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives will not recover for another 10 years, but when did you last think about it? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t thought about it in a few years, I saw the devastation with my own eyes and I hardly think about it. We are not meant to.
If you are in Haiti, report emergency information and location by texting free to 4636 A key goal is to make the SMS project easy to use for those on the grounds with needs and organizations on the ground trying to help. The radical problem is mixing two completely different scenarios here:
4636 SMS Shortcode for Reporting in Haiti – The Ushahidi Blo
A group of engineers from the tech community launched a free SMS relief information service to help people in Haiti. The text message program allows people with Digicel service to text their location and their need to a free short code: "4636" (INFO). For example, someone could text "I need water" or "I need medical help" with their location and these messages will be routed to aid organizations and emergency responders on the ground for free. If you know someone in Haiti, please share the "4636" program with them so they can text their needs and sign up for further information on relief efforts. You can also sign up someone else's phone number by texting REGISTER or REGISTRE and their location and number to 4636.This is also available internationally by texting REGISTER or REGISTRE and the person affected in Haiti's number and location to +4673 749 4535. PLEASE NOTE: For those texting internationally, including from the United States, regular international rates will apply.
Text 4636 for Help in Haiti U.S. Department of State Blog
SimpleTasks AnyoneCanDo
Simple tasks are now part of the Actionable Tasks page - every task has a list of skills needed and the time you'll need to train to do it. If you want simple tasks, just look for 'none' and 'none' in these fields.
On 7 February 2012, during the Forty-ninth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), UN-SPIDER and the Karoly Robert University of Hungary signed the cooperation agreement to incorporate the Research Institute of Remote Sensin...
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UN_spider German ARD TV covering Haiti EQ
On 7 February 2010, UN-SPIDER appeared in the “W wie Wissen” educational programme run by the German ARD TV network. The entire show zoomed in on the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, leaving a trail of utter destruction and devastation in its wake. National governments, military and nongovernmental organizations rushed the humanitarian assistance to Port au Prince immediately after the earthquake. However, securing fast and efficient response and recovery missions, as well as an effective and timely distribution of aid, required the provision of up-to-date space-based information and satellite imagery. At this point the programme drew attention to the work and role of UN-SPIDER.The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), through its UN-SPIDER Programme (United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response) together with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are organising the above mentioned workshop to promote the access and use of space-based technologies and solutions for disaster management and emergency response within relevant communities. In its resolution 61/110 of 14 December 2006 the United Nations General Assembly agreed to establish the “United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response – UN-SPIDER”, as a programme of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, to provide universal access to all countries and all relevant international and regional organizations to all types of space-based information and services relevant to disaster management.
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Palantir Haiti Relief Efforts
Palantir Technologies is contributing to the Haiti relief effort by providing a public instance of Palantir to enable aid organizations to easily access and share vital data. One of the many challenges these organizations face is gaining awareness about the situation on the ground, including locations of heavily damaged infrastructure, people in greatest need of medical attention, and the availability of food and water. Using Palantir, aid organizations will be able to maximize their cooperation, situational awareness, and knowledge base.google.org + google.com
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Google.org develops technologies to help address global challenges and supports innovative partners through grants, investments and in-kind resources. Google for Nonprofits empowers nonprofit organizations with access to premium Google products, technical training and community platforms for networking Explore (Cross posted from the Google Lat Long Blog)People have created maps since early civilization, but only recently have digital mapping tools like Google Earth and Maps made it... Read more Explore Mandela’s archives onlineGoogle.org - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Google.org is the charitable arm of Internet search engine company Google . The organization has committed over $100 million in investments and grants as of May 2010. To fund the organization, Google granted them 3 million shares during their initial public offering . As of March 2012, Google.org's 3 million shares have an approximate value of $1.84 billion. Google has also pledged to contribute one percent of their annual profits to their charitable organizations. [ 1 ] Among its first projects is to develop a mass produced plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that can attain 100 mpg (miles per gallon ) (see vehicle-to-grid ). [ 2 ]InSTEDD has created an evolving platform of technology tools and services based on years of collaboration with our partners around the world. Our systems conform to a set of architectural principles that allow them to be used either as-is or as building blocks for larger solutions.
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