[iDC] iDC Digest, Vol 62, Issue 4

Mon Feb 22 13:14:36 UTC 2010

Hello Douglas,

A good resource for your friend may be Telecoms Sans Frontiers. They deploy
teams around the globe to rebuild communications in emergencies and
disasters. They also work on large long term projects, such as using
communications technology to fight the food crisis.

http://tsfi.org

They established the internet and highspeed satellite lines at the airport
days after the earthquake in Haiti, then moved out to secure connections at
camps and government coordinating offices. They dispach teams daily into the
camps with free call equipment and have reached over 10,000 Haitian
families. They are partnered with many of the humanitarian and rescue
organizations that will be in Haiti for the long haul.

There is more on their work in Haiti here:

http://tsfi.org/en/action/emergencies/112-seisme-en-haiti-tsf-deploi-ses-equ
ipes

I hope that is helpful,

Kendra Kellogg

Email:  kendrakellogg at yahoo.com 

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   1. Re: Civic intelligence in Haiti Recovery? (Felicia Sullivan)
   2. Re: Civic intelligence in Haiti Recovery? (Gina Neff)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:41:47 -0500
From: Felicia Sullivan <felicia.sullivan at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [iDC] Civic intelligence in Haiti Recovery?
To: Erhardt Graeff <erhardt at gmail.com>,	Douglas Schuler
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There is also some research on disasters, chaos theory, complexity and
self-organization that might be of interest:

Comfort, LK (1994).  Self-organization in Complex Systems. Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory. 4(3): 393-410.

Koehler, GA (1995). What Disaster Response Management Can Learn From Chaos
Theory: Overview.  California Research Bureau Conference Proceedings, May
18-19, 1995.  Accessed on February 15, 2010 at:
http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/96/05/over_2.html

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Erhardt Graeff <erhardt at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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/p36458
4_index.html
>
> Best,
> Erhardt
>
> ----
> 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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-- 
Felicia M. Sullivan
Doctoral Candidate
PhD Program in Public Policy
John W. McCormack Graduate School
University of Massachusetts Boston
felicia.sullivan at umb.edu
http://www.feliciasullivan.net [ web ]
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:01:51 -0800
From: Gina Neff <ginasue at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [iDC] Civic intelligence in Haiti Recovery?
To: Douglas Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org>
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A great book on the social nature of disaster is Eric Klinenberg's  
Heatwave.

Gina

Sent from my handheld device while attempting to juggle multiple things.

On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:35 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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> Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution
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>
> Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution
> (book)
>      http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp? 
> ttype=2&tid=11601
>
>
>
>
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