Haiticrowdsourcing a real-time crisis

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sms to 4636

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10 minutes or less?

“In Haiti? Text 4636 with your

location and need. Report emergencies and missing persons.”

170 situation room volunteers

10,000 Haitian diaspora volunteers

Local Knowledge

(12:52:55) (Dalila): I need Thomassin Apo please(12:53:02) (Apo): wait(12:54:53) (Apo): Kenscoff Route: Lat: 18.495746829274168, Long:-72.31849193572998(12:57:25) (Apo): This Area after Petion-Ville and Pelerin 5 is not on Google Map. We have no streets name(12:58:05) (Dalila): @Apo I thank you for ur help(12:58:24) (Apo): you are welcome(12:58:53) (Apo): I know this place like my pocket(12:59:14) (Dalila): thank God u was here

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January

19UN Ops Center was just here. In the past couple of minutes we've found a school that sent an emergency text for a live entrapment of kids and the SAR teams could not find it. SAR team now dispatched to the right location to five decimal places.

Foyer de Sion out of water / responders dispatched. Both reports refer to an orphanage out of water. Report 1070 states a source of help is on the way and the delivery of water is confirmed by our rockstar (literally) volunteer in Montreal.

Reports of emergencies are going straight back to the orgs on the ground, translated and with geo-coords where possible – people in Haiti were responding to this one this morning (19 jan) within 10 minutes of us receiving it

January

19UN Ops Center was just here. In the past couple of minutes we've found a school that sent an emergency text for a live entrapment of kids and the SAR teams could not find it. SAR team now dispatched to the right location to five decimal places.

Foyer de Sion out of water / responders dispatched. Both reports refer to an orphanage out of water. Report 1070 states a source of help is on the way and the delivery of water is confirmed by our rockstar (literally) volunteer in Montreal.

Reports of emergencies are going straight back to the orgs on the ground, translated and with geo-coords where possible – people in Haiti were responding to this one this morning (19 jan) within 10 minutes of us receiving it

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