[iDC] Civic intelligence in Haiti Recovery?

[Erhardt Graeff]

My good friend Kevin Adler, wrote a piece called *The Structural and
Cultural Impact of Natural Disasters on Social Capital: Exploring Community
Life after the 2008 Flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa *that might be relevant.

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/6/4/5/8/p364584_index.html

Best,
Erhardt

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Erhardt Graeff
http://erhardtgraeff.com


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Douglas Schuler <
douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote:

> distributed creativity....
>
> A friend of mine is planning to volunteer in Haiti with Architecture
> for Humanity in March or April. He plans to work with construction
> workers and other skilled people on reconstruction. He is also
> interested in IT and the development of the communications and the
> general SOCIAL infrastructure after the emergency.
>
> I told him that my own knowledge of this is pretty shallow I'd ask
> around in places where the knowledge is likely to be deeper. Are there
> important, interesting projects that he (and others) should know about?
>
> In addition to hoping that the people of Haiti can recover from this
> and lead lives with less hardship in the future I'm interested in
> understanding civic intelligence, particularly how it can be improved
> -- inside and outside of Haiti, in non-emergency and emergency
> situations. I'm working on a theory (or "theory frame") of civic
> intelligence so any insights you have on this -- as well as notes from
> the Haiti emergency -- would be extremely welcome.
>
> Please get back to me with your thoughts on this as soon as you get
> the opportunity.
>
> BTW, our "Civic Intelligence" pattern is at
> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/200
>  and our "Emergency Communication Systems" pattern is at
> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/320
> .
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Douglas Schuler
> douglas at publicsphereproject.org
>
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