Live Feeds from Haiti

New Category: Logistics, Situation Reports for Relief Workers In and Deploying to Haiti

2010-01-23T12:36:00.000-08:00

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Twitter Username: MirelaMonte
Myrtle Beach Real Estate Broker, Incurable Optimist, Human Rights Activist
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
What She's Tweeting: Mirelamonte has taken up the mantle of finding and disseminating logistics reports for Haiti: road conditions, port conditions/regulations, paperwork necessary for volunteers in Haiti and deploying to Haiti, modes of communication, traffic reports.
Also Follow: Mirelamonte/haiti list

Twitter Username: HaitiLogistics
What They're Tweeting: Updates on logistics and aid delivery, information on needs of relief workers

Non-Twitter Link: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Situation Reports, via ReliefWeb
Comprehensive report of current conditions on the ground: Aid distribution, road/port information, ongoing relief efforts, logistical challenges
What They're Posting: Haiti: Earthquake Situation Report #17 current to 3 Feb 2010

Non-Twitter Link: MapAction Map Catalogue: Haiti Earthquake 2010
MapAction delivers vital information in the form of maps, created from information gathered at the disaster scene. By conveying a 'shared operational picture', their maps play a crucial role in delivering humanitarian aid to the right place, quickly.
What They're Posting: Maps of aid distrubution centers and field hospitals, reference street maps for local communities in Haiti

New Category: Volunteer Technology Projects Facilitating Haiti Relief Efforts

2010-01-23T12:25:00.000-08:00

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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.

Search for Loved Ones in Haiti, Post News of Those Who Are OK

2010-01-20T16:43:00.000-08:00

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Non-Twitter Link: The Google Crisis Response Center
Location: various
What They're Posting: Search for loved ones in Haiti, report news of those who are OK, learn how to make free phone calls to Haiti

Non-Twitter Link: FamilyLinksICRC.org
The International Red Cross Haiti Earthquake 2010 FamilyLink Database
What They're Posting: Help, if you are looking for your relatives in Haiti or if you want to inform your relatives that you are alive after the earthquake.

Non-Twitter Link: The CNN Looking for Loved Ones in Haiti Board
Location: various
What They're Posting: Information on those missing and OK in Haiti, links to Google Crisis Response and Red Cross databases

Non-Twitter Link: The CNN I'm Alive Board
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Posting: Video and text messages from those who are OK

Updates from Journalists on the Ground in Haiti

2010-01-18T23:13:00.001-08:00

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Twitter Username: AP
Associated Press
Location: various
What They're Tweeting: breaking news, reports from the ground in Haiti FREQUENT UPDATES

Twitter Username: BradParksCNN
Associate Producer for Larry King Live
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What He's Tweeting: News of rescue operations and conditions in general

Twitter Username: carelpedre
Radio and TV Host
Location: Port-au-Prince
What He's Tweeting: news of those awaiting rescue, news of rescue efforts, conditions in general FREQUENT UPDATES

Twitter Username: DanielleCNN
CNN Senior Producer for CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD (@sanjayguptacnn), also contributing reporter for CNN.com; TIME Magazine
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What She's Tweeting: Breaking news, conditions in general

Twitter Username: frontline_world
Frontline World, from PBS
Location: various
What They're Tweeting: Links to extensive coverage of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in wake of Haiti earthquake

Twitter Username: InsideDisaster
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Links to documentary photo, video and blogging from Haiti
Twitter Username: damiencave
New York Times Miami Bureau Chief
Location: Port-au-Prince
What He's Tweeting: News from Port-au-Prince

Twitter Username: IvanCNN
CNN correspondent based in Istanbul
Current Location: On the ground in Haiti
What He's Tweeting: live news from sites where rescue efforts are underway

Twitter Username: jonathanolinger
International documentarian, and founder of Discover The Journey.
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What He's Tweeting: Real-time updates on resources becoming available, updates on conditions in general on the ground and at relief stations, sharing video

Twitter Username: pierrecote
Creator of a realtime collective intelligence transmedia with a mission to help HAITI.
Location: Haiti
What He's Tweeting: News on live broadcasts from Haiti

Updates from Haiti Residents: Keeping the World Informed

2010-01-18T23:11:00.003-08:00

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Twitter Username: fredodupoux
Location: Port-au-Prince
What He's Tweeting: Frederic Dupoux has become a lifeline of information as he reports conditions on the ground in Port-au-Prince.

Twitter Username: karljeanjeune
Haiti Resident
Location: Haiti
What He's Tweeting: word of those needing rescue, conditions in general

Twitter Username: troylivesay
Location: Port-au-Prince
What He's Tweeting: news from all over the city

Non-Twitter Link: Ushahidi Haiti 2010 Incidents
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. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.
Location: various, network of Ushahidi volunteers
What They're Posting: Crisis Map of Haiti represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date crisis map available to the humanitarian community. The information here is mapped in near real time and gathered from reports coming from inside Haiti via: SMS, Web, Email, Radio, Phone, Twitter, Facebook, Television, List-serves, Live streams and Situation Reports

Updates from Outside Port-au-Prince

2010-01-18T23:07:00.001-08:00

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Grand Goave

Non-Twitter Link: Star of Hope's Situation Report, 22 Jan 2010, from Dano section of Grand Goave

Jacmel:

Twitter Username: melindayiti
Current Location: Jacmel
What He's Tweeting: conditions in Jacmel

Twitter Username: Planglobal
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: updates from Jacmel and the countryside

Twitter Username: RescueJacmel
Location: Jacmel
What They're Tweeting: Live news of, and from, Jacmel

Jimani:

Twitter Username: HODRopsIN
Hands on Disaster Relief, Padang, Indonesia
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: they are enroute to Jimani, watch their feed or our digest for updates [posted Jan 20 3:00 p.m. EST]

Leogane:

Non-Twitter Link: BBC Video on Leogane

Twitter Username: stcuk
Save The Children UK
Location: London
What They're Tweeting: news of hospitals and shelters in Leogane, Haiti

Twitter Username: firesideint
Fireside International
Location: Haiti/USA
What They're Tweeting: Updates from Leogane, enroute to Darbonne

Montrouis:

Twitter Username: MissionMANNA
Mission Manna provides medical care for malnourished children and continuing health care education for adults in and around Montrouis, Haiti.
Location: Montrouis, Haiti/Asheville, NC
What They're Tweeting: News from Montrouis and conditions in general in Haiti

Petion-Ville:

Non-Twitter Link: 82nd Airborne Setting Up Base in Petionville: Petionville Club Base

Non-Twitter Link: Blog from Bryan Mims, Traveling with 82nd Airborne in Petionville
Journalist, WRAL Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, NC
Location: Petionville, Haiti
What He's Blogging: daily updates from Petionville Base of U.S. 82nd Airborne

Petit-Goave:

Non-Twitter Link: CNN I Reports Petit-Goave
CNN
What They're Posting: Information on those who are missing and those who are OK in Petit-Goave

Petit Guinee and Faustin Soulouque:

Non-Twitter Link: CHF-Haiti Update - Jan. 20, 2010: Complete devastation in Petit Guinee and Faustin Soulouque
What They're Posting: Pictures and a brief description of the situation on the ground in Petit Guinee and Soulouque

Updates en Francais & Kreyol

2010-01-18T22:52:00.000-08:00

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Twitter Username: bienglace
Location: Unknown
What He's Tweeting: Updates en Francais

Twitter Username: bworldconnected
What They're Tweeting: Updates en Francais

Twitter Username: Louisoxfam
Humanitarian Media Officer for Oxfam, an international charity that works with others to overcome poverty and suffering around the world.
Location: Port-au-Prince
What He's Tweeting: Text updates and SKYPE video updates in English and en Français, breaking news on aid for those in Haiti, reports from the ground in Port-au-Prince

Twitter Username: ungaro
Black American woman writer, int'l consultant, former brdcast news reprtr. Thinking glocal: #Haiti
Location: US, EU
What She's Tweeting: Monitoring CNN and tweeting what's on, locations of and links to medical resources, retweeting important updates in English and en Francais

Non-Twitter Link: Voice of America News of Haiti in Creole
Link contributed by ungaro

Non-Twitter Link: Health and First Aid information in English, en Francais and Creole, from the Hesperian Foundation: Where There Is No Doctor

Non-Twitter Link: Live Television Streams from Haiti in Kryol: HaitiPal

Updates and Reports from Humanitarian Organizations

2010-01-18T22:48:00.000-08:00

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Twitter Username: CAREUSA
CARE: Defending Dignity, Fighting Poverty
Location: Atlanta/On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Updates on CARE's relief efforts in Haiti

Non-Twitter Link: Blog: Coco Mcabe of Oxfam America
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What She's Posting: Reports of Oxfam's operations, honest, gritty reports of conditions on the ground.

Twitter Username: CNNImpact/haiti-charities
From CNN
Location: various
What they're Tweeting: Digest of Tweets from Humanitarian Organizations on the ground in Haiti

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: IDFinHaiti
IDF and Israeli aid delegation in Haiti
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: updates from their field hospital, updates on their rescue/aid operations

Twitter Username: Louisoxfam
Humanitarian Media Officer for Oxfam, an international charity that works with others to overcome poverty and suffering around the world.
Location: Port-au-Prince
What He's Tweeting: Text updates and SKYPE video updates in English and en Français, breaking news on aid for those in Haiti, reports from the ground in Port-au-Prince

Twitter Username: MerlinUK
Merlin is an international aid agency specialising in health
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Updates on field surgical unit in Haiti, one surgeon is also blogging

Twitter Username: MSF_USA
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Location: Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Updates on medical aid operations in Haiti

Twitter Username: PIH_org
Partners in Health
Location: On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Updates on operations at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince

Twitter Username: reliefweb
Relief Web - Serving the Information Needs of the Humanitarian Relief Community
Location: Geneva, Kobe, New York, on the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: News of aid delivery challenges, needs priorities, maps of aid stations in Haiti, detailed local damage assessment reports and maps, news for those deploying to Haiti

Twitter Username: stcuk
Save The Children UK
Location: London
What They're Tweeting: news of hospitals and shelters in Leogane, Haiti

Twitter Username: UNHaitiInfo
Info source for UN community, family and friends of UN staff and operations in Haiti.
Location: On the ground in Haiti/New York, NY
What They're Tweeting: Updates on UN operations in Haiti, updates on other relief org operations

Twitter Username: Unicef
Location: United Nations/On the ground in Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Reports of operations, field diaries, reports of relief efforts

Twitter Username: USNSComfort
US Navy Hospital Ship Comfort
Location: Haiti
What They're Tweeting: reports of their medical aid operations in Haiti

Twitter Username: WFPlogistics
World Food Project Logistics
Location: On the ground Haiti
What They're Tweeting: Conditions/passability of roadways, runways and ports, news of air evacuation of survivors.

Twitter Username: WorldVisionUSA
World Vision has 800 staff in Haiti responding to 7.0 earthquake on 1/12.
Location: Haiti
What They're Tweeting: updates from orphanages

Twitter Username: YELEHAITI
Twitter Home of Wyclef Jean's YeleHaiti Foundation
What They're Tweeting: Updates on YeleHaiti Foundation's wide-ranging aid/recovery efforts in Haiti

In Haiti? Where to Find Food, Shelter, Medical Care, by Location

2010-01-18T22:44:00.000-08:00

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Non-Twitter Link: MapAction Map Catalogue: Haiti Earthquake 2010
What They're Posting: There are maps here to help you find food, water, shelter and medical help

Non-Twitter Link: Help Haiti Heal: Find Food, Shelter, Medical Help
HelpHaitiHeal is a website designed for use by the general public to get information quickly so that it may be shared with those who need it most to save lives.
Site Focus: (1) Survive – Treat Wounds (2) Find Water, Food, Shelter (3) Find Loved Ones

Non-Twitter Link: Comprehensive Map of WFP Food Distribution Spots Current to 19 Jan; Confirmed Food Distribution Stations Current to 1/21: WFP food dist sites Champs de Mars, Petionville Club 2 sites Delmas

First Aid, Medical Self-Help for Injured in Haiti

2010-01-18T22:42:00.000-08:00

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Twitter Username: eqpaho
PAHO/WHO Public Health, Equity and Human Development Pan American Health Organization Regional office of WHO for the Americas
Location: Washington DC USA
What Tey're Tweeting: First Aid information for injured in Haiti, news of WHO operations in Haiti

Non-Twitter Link: Health and First Aid information in English, en Francais and Creole, from the Hesperian Foundation
Free Health/First Aid Publications in Kreyoli:
Where There Is No Doctor
Where Women Have No Doctor
Sanitation and Cleanliness for a Healthy Environment

Non-Twitter Link: CIOMR Field First Aid Manual en Francais

Twitter Username: RedCross
International Red Cross
Location: various
What They're Tweeting: Live updates on RedCross operations in Haiti

Twitter Username: ungaro
Black American woman writer, int'l consultant, former brdcast news reprtr. Thinking glocal: #Haiti
Location: US, EU
What She's Tweeting: Monitoring CNN and tweeting what's on, locations of and links to medical resources, retweeting important updates in English and en Francais

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2010-01-17T18:55:00.000-08:00

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