Hi -- As part of a Random Hacks Of Kindness event this weekend, I helped come up with and coordinate an idea that may save lives in the Haiti Earthquake relief effort.
Background: People in emergency situations are using twitter and social media to reach out for help. (Some as desperate as "help, I'm still alive but stuck under a house" or "please send water and medicine asap"). However, due to the volume of traffic, many of them are getting overlooked. (This is per a person in contact with the Red Cross at the event this weekend).
My request: We need feedback from the people directly involved in this relief efforts of this situation. The "View Crises" page is meant for them (where they could see the distilled, most important tweets, posts, etc). Would they actually use this?
If you know someone involved, please pass this to them. We would love to hear from them. We are under way in getting a prototype on line now, but the sooner we can get input / feedback the better.
How it would work:
Page 1: Web viewers go to CrisisFilter.org. The home page refreshes about every 15 seconds..just enough time to report on posts containing crises. In this way, someone could just stay on the site and continuously report crises.
The second page: Relief workers (or people wanting to populate the Ushahidi relief site) go to the distilled "View Crises" page to see the important ones.
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