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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti Haiti], with 10 million people and a history of poverty, was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, at 21:53 UTC (4:53 pm local time).  It was the country's most severe earthquake in over 200 years.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti Haiti], with 10 million people and a history of poverty, was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, at 21:53 UTC (4:53 pm local time).  It was the country's most severe earthquake in over 200 years.


The damaged area is home to 3 million people.  The death toll will be hard to determine, but is said to be in the order of 100,000 deaths, which would be roughly 3% of the area's population.  The number of injured, orphans etc is most likely very high ((estimates?)).  The whole country is affected either directly or indirectly.
The damaged area is home to 3 million people.  The death toll will be hard to determine, but is said to be "more than 100,000 deaths", which would be roughly more than 3% of the directly affected area's population.  The number of injured, orphans etc is most likely very high ((estimates?)).  The whole country is affected either directly or indirectly.


This hits an area where ... ((fill in with data about people's age and previous health, weather, food, infrastructure, organisations, economy - some is to be stolen from crisiscommons's link below))
This hits an area where ... ((fill in with data about people's age and previous health, weather, food, infrastructure, organisations, economy - some is to be stolen from crisiscommons's link below))
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Real-time consequences are being followed here: http://haiti.ushahidi.com
Real-time consequences are being followed here: http://haiti.ushahidi.com


Longer term consequences are to be expected: ...
Longer term consequences are to be expected:
* ...
* George Mason University economics chair Tyler Cowen has speculated that the earthquake has effectively ended the nation-state of Haiti. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti#cite_note-32]


Some other reports are:
Some other reports are:

Revision as of 10:10, 15 January 2010

Aims

It's mostly folks on the ground who can look at local needs and resources. Appropedia can help by providing links to specific technologies, "appropriate" in the sense that they can be built with local resources and other resources that may be brought in with relative ease, and used to help with local needs. We all learn as we go along.

This page was initially based on Haiti earthquake assistance project by Bart Orlando, and later revamped by Lucas Gonzalez using the SCIM (simple critical infrastructure mapping) framework developed by Vinay Gupta et al, and detailed also in a STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed Populations with Distributed Talent (#70 of Defense Horizons).

Please give us some time to flesh it out a bit, and comment in the talk page. Thanks!

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Haiti, with 10 million people and a history of poverty, was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, at 21:53 UTC (4:53 pm local time). It was the country's most severe earthquake in over 200 years.

The damaged area is home to 3 million people. The death toll will be hard to determine, but is said to be "more than 100,000 deaths", which would be roughly more than 3% of the directly affected area's population. The number of injured, orphans etc is most likely very high ((estimates?)). The whole country is affected either directly or indirectly.

This hits an area where ... ((fill in with data about people's age and previous health, weather, food, infrastructure, organisations, economy - some is to be stolen from crisiscommons's link below))

Real-time consequences are being followed here: http://haiti.ushahidi.com

Longer term consequences are to be expected:

  • ...
  • George Mason University economics chair Tyler Cowen has speculated that the earthquake has effectively ended the nation-state of Haiti. [1]

Some other reports are:

The response from the wikis has started:

INDIVIDUAL RESILIENCE

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' RESILIENCE

Examples of groups

Communications

Space

Transportation

Resource control

ORGANISATIONS' RESILIENCE

Shared map

Shared plan

Shared succession model

NATION-STATE RESILIENCE

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

These links probably belong under "resources" for each SCIM category.

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