I have a love for maps because they can be the most rich, yet easy-to-understand communication tools. ReliefWeb, a website devoted to distributing time-sensistive information about humanitarian crises, is an excellent resource for insightful maps and infographics. You can sign up to receive email updates of all their new maps. Suff like this map showing [...]

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“An emergency power kit can help you keep important communications equipment running in the midst of a crisis. Read about how to put together your own kit.
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Read it: Keeping Communications Equipment Powered in an Emergency
(Found on:Today in TechSoup.)

Ethan Zuckerman is one of the best bloggers in the world; he must get paid by Harvard to do it, or something. (He does.)
His musing last week on the ICT/geek community’s response to the Katrina relief effort is a fascinating look at how we can potentially respond with the full weight of technology’s resources.
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Andy Carvin, director of the Digital Divide Network, recently posted a fascinating, heartbreaking perspective just how much damage has been done. He found the images at a strange condo site, condobuzz.com. The images are overlays of the flooding with other metropolitan areas. (Note this is just the flooding. The hurricane damages, if in the midwest, [...]

Kathyn Cramer, based in New York, is doing great work with Google maps. The following information is quoted from her blog.
Step 1: Go to Google Maps and enter the address. Click on the button that says “Hybrid” on the upper right. You will get an image with a speech ballon pointing to a thumbtack [...]

With a nod to International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day (Friday, Sept. 2). … Crossposted on the DDN list.
I am beginning research into ways in which mapping technologies like GIS (wikipedia: GIS) are being used (and can potentially be used) to help avert or cope with humanitarian disasters.
The tragedy of New Orleans has given [...]