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Why Flip The Classroom When We Can Make It Do Cartwheels?

BY Cathy Davidson | 05-09-2012 | 10:38 AM | CHOLERA TIME MAP

Adding some technology to the educational process is one thing, but truly revolutionary learning experiences take a deeper sort of innovation, which you can see at a program at Duke working for change in Haiti. READ MORE›

Reinveting Aid For Urban Disasters

BY Scientific American | 04-20-2012 | 11:39 AM | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Our model for aid after earthquakes, floods, or other calamities is made for remote, rural areas. But most people live in cities, and we need to be prepared to care for them after disasters. READ MORE›

The Business Of Recovery: Haiti Needs Investment More Than Aid

BY Katherine Pickus | 04-16-2012 | 2:00 PM | ROOT CAPITAL

Two years after the earthquake, many in the country are still struggling just to survive the day. But attention needs to move away from a focus on basic needs to helping Haitians build for the future. READ MORE›

Sex Toys, Winter Coats, And Spanish Flags: The Uselessness Of Post-Disaster Donations

BY Katharine Gammon | 01-23-2012 | 9:00 AM | JOSE HOLGUIN-VERAS

Years of studying disaster relief has led Jose Holguin-Veras to a few simple truths about donations. While tiger costumes and Viagra aren't going to do much good, it makes people feel better to think they're helping. But they're ... READ MORE›

Text Donations Have Created A World Of Impulse Giving

BY Austin Carr | 01-12-2012 | 9:08 AM | TEXTING

Because they made giving as easy as buying a song on iTunes, text-based donations were a huge source of money for Haiti after the earthquake. Is this new impulse toward giving going to change philanthropy for the better or make people ... READ MORE›

How Haiti's Earthquake Inspired LinkedIn's Skill-Based Volunteer Marketplace

BY Austin Carr | 12-20-2011 | 2:21 AM | REID HOFFMAN

It's not just for landing your next job anymore. In the event of a natural disaster, LinkedIn has a new service--LinkedIn For Good--that will connect people in need with people with the skills to help them. It's all part of their ... READ MORE›

An Inflatable Lantern For Disaster Relief, Powered By Crowdfunding

BY Alex Goldmark | 12-01-2011 | 9:34 AM | LUMINAID

After blowing up on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, the LuminAID is going to be appearing on both the shelves of American stores and in disaster areas around the world. READ MORE›

WeTopia: What Would Happen If Zynga Made Games For Good?

BY Ariel Schwartz | 11-29-2011 | 8:12 AM | WETOPIA

Instead of spending money to buy a fake online cow, players of WeTopia advance by buying a real cow for real farmers in the developing world. READ MORE›

International Medical Corps Helps Haiti In Its Long Haul

BY Jocelyn C. Zuckerman | 10-19-2011 | 2:50 PM | CAREERS

International Medical Corps is a model for global not-for-profits, with a plan that goes way beyond drop-in disaster relief. In Haiti, IMC is training locals, building communities, and doing everything it can to put itself to pasture.READ MORE›

Using Cell Phone Tracking Data To Pinpoint Relief After Disasters

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 09-01-2011 | 5:48 PM | ETHONOMICS

After a major earthquake or flood, people need help but can be hard to find. A new technique--using tracking data from phones to figure out where people have fled to--could make it easier to get them help.READ MORE›

How A Pharmaceutical Giant Is Battling Malnutrition On The Ground In Haiti

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-26-2011 | 10:00 PM | ETHONOMICS

Abbot could have just given money to Partners In Health and called it a day. Instead, they've been on the ground helping to build a factory to make hunger-destroying peanut paste.READ MORE›

Tcho Tcho's Digital Mobile Wallets Are Boosting Haiti's Economy

BY Austin Carr | 08-24-2011 | 11:46 AM | ETHONOMICS

With the country's banking and financial infrastructure still in tatters, a new mobile service that allows Haitians to make and receive payments via text message is taking off and allowing commerce to flourish.READ MORE›

State Department Is Trying To Make A Thousand Ushahidis Bloom

BY E.B. Boyd | 05-03-2011 | 2:26 PM | INNOVATION

Inspired by the rapid-fire response of the tech world to the earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. government is planning to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech.READ MORE›

How Tech Is Helping the Haiti Recovery

BY Jocelyn C. Zuckerman | 02-01-2011 | 2:00 PM | ETHONOMICS

Since the 2010 earthquake, not-for-profits and corporations have developed new technologies to better deliver services to Haitians, transforming aid in disaster areas everywhere.READ MORE›

Port-au-Prince 2.0: A City of Urban Villages?

BY Greg Lindsay | 01-26-2011 | 9:22 AM | ETHONOMICS

Reclaiming the core of the old city could require block-by-block redevelopment, at least according to the plans presented last night in Haiti by the architect Andrés Duany and his firm Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company.READ MORE›

Konbit's Skill-Indexing Platform for Earthquake Recovery Workers Launches in Haiti

BY Ariel Schwartz | 01-07-2011 | 7:25 PM | ETHONOMICS

It wasn't easy, but the communications platform for Haitians looking for work is now live.READ MORE›

Change Generation: Emma Taylor, Co-Founder, European Disaster Volunteers

BY David D. Burstein | 12-30-2010 | 3:50 PM | ETHONOMICS

When the earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, the world was mobilized. Now almost a year later, the news crews have disappeared and the donations have eased up, but help is still needed. That's where Emma Taylor and the organization she co-founded, European Disaster Volunteers (EDV) come in, as an organization that could provide long-term aid to troubled regions.READ MORE›

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