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 and others, and detailed also in a recent Defense Horizons issue.
Please give us some time to flesh it out a bit, and comment in the talk page. Thanks!
Related pages
- 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
- Bart Orlando's seminal page
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti
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