Yesterday I attended Crisis Camp Boston, a loosely organized mixture of aid workers, dreamers, and software engineers. The centerpiece of the effort seemed to be haiti.ushahidi.com, which is a sort of centralized emergency response dispatch. I think of it as the Internet+text-message equivalent of 911, for a country without any real government. It’s pretty snazzy. Hopefully aid agencies are actually looking at the emergency reports coming in.
I spent most of the day in a much less immediately productive way, debating the best use for XOs in Haiti. We’ll see shortly if anything comes of it.