Topic: Caribbean

Haiti List: How We Are Helping

  Latest: As you know GLOCAL influence is the best, bit of Global effect and a bit of Local impact. Here is a great and useful example: PECHA KUCHA & ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY JOIN IN THE REBUILDING OF HAITI. ...READ»

Haiti Poster Project Bolsters Relief

Over 300 artists and designers created posters about the Haitian earthquake, which will be auctioned to benefit Doctors Without Borders.READ»

Is Haiti a Laboratory for New Urbanists? What the Country Really Needs Is Old Urbanism

Last Wednesday, Haitian president René Préval asked the international aid community for $3.8 billion to rebuild his shattered country after January’s devastating earthquake. In what amounted to a fund-raiser at the United ...READ»

The Smart Branding Story Behind Haiti's Brightly-Painted Buses

Haiti's bus system, called tap-taps, use intricate murals on their sides to communicate to riders that they're safe and reliable.READ»

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting

After the January earthquake that rocked Haiti, satellite maps -- a discussion topic at this D.C. meetup -- enabled scientists to find and act on topographical changes more quickly than ever. They integrated their observations with ...READ»

Haiti Relief Project Update

Florence Vanleuven first started doing humanitarian work in Haiti as part of The Global Pioneers organization in 2009. Since the earthquake she has been at the forefront of gathering and shipping supplies to Haiti. Florence is also ...READ»

Screw Monetization! It's All About Ethonomics at SXSW

SXSW Interactive this year was all about ethonomics, or social media for social change. "How do we create a future we want to live in?" Danah Boyd asked in her keynote on "Privacy and Publicity in the Digital Age," based on her ...READ»

Sign of Humanitarian Relief That Anyone Can Understand

The logos for disaster relief agencies need to work harder than the average identity. Rick Barrack examines the effectiveness of several logos after the devastation in Haiti and Chile.READ»

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Lessons From Chile: Better Building Codes Work, so Why Don't We Have Them?

Chile's seismic construction codes saved lives in the latest quake, but what if the next Big One happens here?READ»

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Open Source Maps Are Helping the World Bank Save Lives in Haiti

An aid worker from the European Commission holds a PDF printout from OpenStreetMaps. The humanitarian relief effort underway in Haiti is proving the true potential of open source map building. Don't take my word for it, follow the ...READ»

Prize-Winning Vizualizations of the Disaster in Haiti

GOOD recently asked its readers to create an infographic that shows both the devastation of the recent Haiti earthquake along with aid efforts thus far. Emily Schwartzman won the contest for her hard-hitting design, which clearly ...READ»

"Miracle Machine" Brings Clean Water to Haiti

Atmospheric water generators, or machines that extract water from humid air, have been around for awhile--we wrote about Atmospheric Water Systems' 11-stage filtration water generator last year, and Willie Nelson even sells his own ...READ»

Can Port-au-Prince Be Saved, or Should Haiti Move the Capital?

The real question facing Haiti isn't whether to rebuild the capital or move it inland; it's how do you build a city that creates opportunities instead of slums?READ»

Evil-Faced Robot Could Have Warned of Haiti Earthquake

The recent earthquake in Haiti has highlighted the need for an accurate earthquake detection system that, unlike Twitter, can predict shaking more than a few seconds in advance. Scientists have long been able to predict earthquakes ...READ»

A Brilliant Strategy May Put You On The Competitive Map. But Only Solid Execution Keeps You There.

I am thinking about this today because we just signed a huge strategic partnership deal that I am not allowed to announce as yet. It should make it much easier for us to raise outside capital, provide a new revenue stream and ...READ»

Realvibez Signs Partnership Agreement Television Channel

This is our first major content distribution deal for someone else's content. We have done deals with Imeem and Vuze involving our own content but this deal is more akin to Hulu signing a network like MTV, with Realvibez being Hulu. ...READ»

Choosing A Domain Name: The Realvibes/Realvibez Case Study

I just came arcross Choose Your Domain Name Wisely here in FC and wanted to add my story to that as a mistake others should learn from. I have a marketing background so I preferred to choose a name that had some meaning but ...READ»

iFive: Gulf Shrimping, Israeli Army Facebook Abuse, Stop to Gay Weddings, Wyclef Jean's Haiti Hiccup, Blair's $7M Donation

Innovation? MISTER Innovation to you.READ»

Haitian Artisans Hotify Celebrities' Homes With Their Original Designs

Forget Wyclef. Brandaid is helping the Haitian economy by giving it its own star power.READ»

Meet the Creators of Sunspring, a Portable, Solar, Water-Purification System

Cofounders, Innovative Water Technologies Dumont, Colorado The Barkers -- Jack, 47, is the inventor; Carmen, 50, runs the business -- are behind the Sunspring, a portable, solar-powered water-purifying system. Jack: ...READ»

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U.K. Launches Innovation Fund for International Development and Aid

The announcement comes just after the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announces its very own innovation ventures investment fund.READ»

Wyclef Jean Leaves His Own NGO to Prep for Haitian Prez Run

Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has acknowledged officially that he'll run for president of Haiti, and he's leaving Yele Haiti, the NGO he created in 2005.READ»

Core77 to the Rescue: Pop-Up Shelters for Haiti and Chile

The design blog's 1-Hour Design Challenge focuses on earthquake relief.READ»

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Med Student Pioneers “Political Medicine” in Rural Haiti

DoSomething, headed by Fast Company columnist Nancy Lublin, has recognized five young social entrepreneurs with $10,000 grants--and one with a prize of $100,000. Fast Company will profile one of these enterprising youth each day this ...READ»

How Social Gaming Uses Virtual Giving to Get Real Results

One of the most encouraging applications of social gaming is the ability to leverage its popularity to generate contributions to causes and humanitarian crises. We saw this when Zynga created limited edition items in FarmVille, FishVille, Mafia Wars, and Zynga Poker with proceeds going to victims of the Haiti earthquake.READ»