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* Started by Bart Orlando [http://www.appropedia.org/Projects_with_Bart]
* This page is based on [[HAITI_EARTHQUAKE_ASSISTANCE_PROJECT]], started by Bart Orlando [http://www.appropedia.org/Projects_with_Bart]
* Revamped by [[User:LucasG|Lucas Gonzalez]] using the SCIM framework.
* Revamped by [[User:LucasG|Lucas Gonzalez]] using the SCIM framework.



Revision as of 08:23, 15 January 2010

This page

This Appropedia Web page is Dedicated to creating an appropriate technology response to the catastrophe in Haiti.

Helping with this page

Focus and structure

Many essential needs can be provided using appropriate technology: shelter, water pasteurization, cooking food, dealing with human waste, lighting, telecommunications, bathing and methods of aid cargo delivery, etc.

All these needs and solutions could be sliced and diced in many different ways. This page is structured following the SCIM model, Simple Critical Infrastructure Mapping, described in:

Information on needs

INDIVIDUAL

Too hot and Too cold: shelter

  • Causes and on-the-ground assessment:
    • Temperature not an issue except for infants?
    • Certain regions?
    • Weather maps?
  • Infrastructure solutions:

Hunger and Thirst: supplies

Disease and Injury: safety

  • Causes and on-the-ground assessment (how much of a problem it really is):
    • Earthquake itself, but also
    • Bad roads
    • Violence
    • Bad water
  • Infrastructure solutions:
    • ...

GROUPS

Examples of groups

Communications

Space

Transportation

Resource control

ORGANISATIONS

Shared map

Shared plan

Shared succession model

NATION-STATE

Jurisdiction

Citizens

  • Some Haitian citizens have relatives across the border in the Dominican Republic.
  • There are tourists etc, and UN personel, in Haiti.

Territory

Effective organisations

International recognition

Unsorted links

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