Today’s IHT has a fascinating article about an organization called NetHope that is working on the utilization of technology to improve the implementation of humanitarian aid around the world.
NetHope bringing technology to humanitarian efforts
By Julie Bick
Published in: International Herald Tribune, November 11, 2008
“Rui Lopes’s first impression of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, after the 2004 tsunami was chaos. Bone-jarringly rough roads led to a hastily assembled field office, where Lopes, the senior technical director of Save the Children, learned that the communications infrastructure, along with just about everything else, had been destroyed.
Aside from a few satellite phones and even fewer working mobile phones, the area was isolated as relief workers scrambled to assess the security situation and address the vast humanitarian needs.” Read the full article here…
