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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
- This page is based on HAITI_EARTHQUAKE_ASSISTANCE_PROJECT, started by Bart Orlando [1]
- Revamped by Lucas Gonzalez using the SCIM framework.
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
- What's going on and what help is needed http://haiti.ushahidi.com
- Democracy Now aired 1-14-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmJr1LbgD14
- http://crisiscommons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake
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:
- http://hexayurt.com
- Stoves
- ...
Hunger and Thirst: supplies
- Causes and on-the-ground assessment (how much of a problem it really is):
- ...
- Infrastructure solutions:
- http://akvo.org/wiki
- "now" ideas http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gleick/detail?blogid=104&entry_id=55235
- Amy Smith's work for heating with agricultural briquettes video
- Cooking: Corn Cob Charcoal Crusher
- Farming: Plough construction manual, Rice husker construction manual
- Equipement: Wheelbarrow construction manual
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
- Communication with textmessages http://www.frontlinesms.org and http://medic.frontlinesms.org - Ken Banks, John Nesbit ken.banks@kiwanja.net
Space
Transportation
Resource control
ORGANISATIONS
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
- Projects specifically developed in or for Haiti
- Waste to Product
- Water purification