A catalog and digest of who's sharing information from or about Haiti, without the cross-chatter or noise.



The Live Feeds from Haiti Blog is where you can follow links to view real-time Twitter feeds from/about Haiti, whether you have a Twitter account or not.



Simply click the links below to view live Twitter feeds from Twitter members who are tweeting from Haiti.



Each link will open the feed in a new window. You may open as many windows, and follow as many feeds, as your web browser will permit. To refresh a feed, you can refresh the browser window.



Feeds appear as soon as they are posted to Twitter so you can stay up to date on what is happening in Haiti.



Immediately below are our top three suggested feeds:

Live Twitter Updates from InternetHaiti: What's Happening on the Ground

Twitter Username: InternetHaiti
Location: Port-au-Prince

What They're Tweeting: Frequent updates of conditions on the ground and breaking news, in English and en Francais

Read Live Updates from InternetHaiti: See What's Happening on the Ground

The Google Crisis Response Center

What They're Posting: Search for Missing Loved Ones in Haiti, Post Updates on Those Known to be OK; Learn How to Make Free Calls to Haiti


Search the Google Crisis Response Center

MirelaMonte: Logistics, Info for Relief Workers

Twitter Username: @MirelaMonte
What She's Tweeting: Logistics information for relief workers in, and deploying to Haiti

Read Live Twitter Updates from @MirelaMonte

Saturday, January 23, 2010

New Category: Volunteer Technology Projects Facilitating Haiti Relief Efforts

Click on Twitter Username to Read Feeds

Twitter Username: CrisisCamp
Community Technology + Humanitarian Relief
Location: various, volunteer network
What They're Tweeting: Updates on Crisis Commons, bringing together domain experts, developers, and first responders to improve technology/practice for humanitarian crisis management/disaster relief

Twitter Username: epiccolorado
Helping Haiti Tweak-the-Tweet
Location: Boulder, CO
What They're Tweeting: This CU research center has devised standardized hashtags for use in Tweeting messages concerning Haiti. They are now Re-Tweeting updates on those who are OK, using the hashtags to reach the widest possible audience.

Twitter Username: HaitiRewired
An ongoing conversation about technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti hosted by @Wired
Location: various, network of volunteers. Mission Statement: http://haitirewired.ning.com/profiles/blogs/haiti-rewireds-mission
What They're Tweeting: Building a network of volunteer collaborators: technologists, researchers, geographers, infrastructure specialists, aid groups and others.

Twitter Username: ushahidi
The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Ushahidi volunteers have been working around the clock to facilitate mapping Latitude/Longitude coordinates for those needing and offering assistance in Haiti.
What They're Tweeting: Location-specific incident reports from inside Haiti: who needs help, who can deliver help

Non-Twitter Link: wehaveweneed.org
Wehaveneed.org is a place where relief organizations can quickly post their most urgent needs and have them matched by generous donors during a time of crisis. This site was built by a group of geeky do-gooders who saw this as an opportunity to use technology to help bring people and donations together in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Haiti.
What They're Doing: matching needs to resources for Haiti relief.
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