An excerpt from an interview with Derek Slater, one of Google’s policy analysts:
CNN: In watching the first weeks after the earthquake in Haiti, have you thought of any ways tech infrastructure or the Web might be used to help build that country back up?
Slater: That’s a really interesting question, and I don’t have a great answer off the top of my head. I’ve only seen parts of [the news coverage], but it’s been amazing to watch all of the sites [...]
Google’s translation service added support for Haitian Creole, the most popular language in Haiti.
This means that Mojofiti will be adding Haitian Creole at mojofiti.com .
Soon Mojofiti will be able to provide this as a phone app as well.
These advancements at Mojofiti will be of tremendous help with disaster relief in Haiti.
“Haitian Creole language, often called simply Creole or Kreyòl, is a language spoken in Haiti by about eight million people, which is about 80% of the entire population, and via [...]
by Anne Shaw
Last updated at 5:57 PM on 05th February 2010
The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world’s earliest languages to the grave.
Mr. Good, who died last week aged about 85, was the last native of the Andaman Islands who was fluent in Bo.
Named after the tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to the pre-Neolithic period when the earliest humans walked out of Africa.
Mr. [...]
by Raj
A top ten list of things that aren’t as cheap as you think.
#10 Bottled Water – Bottled water sounds like it should be cheaper – it’s 200 to 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. But in the US, the annual energy wasted on bottled water adds the equivalent to 100,000 cars on roads and 1 billion pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. And the price we pay for water doesn’t begin to address the longer term issues [...]
GL. Kohuth/Michigan State University, via Associated Press
A vigil at Michigan State University in support of Haiti earthquake victims on Jan. 20 in East Lansing, Me.
by STEPHANIE STROM
Published: February 1, 2010
Before the earthquake, the American Red Cross had 15 people in Haiti working on projects like malaria prevention and measles vaccines. Partners in Health, a charity based in Boston, had more than 700 doctors and nurses among a staff of almost 5,000 operating a hospital and multiple clinics in the country.
Yet [...]
Mojofitians are helping with the Haitian Relief Effort.
The suffering and devastation in Haiti is heartbreaking. Millions of people have been affected by this tragedy. The current death toll is over 150,000. Please join Mojofiti in continuing to support the global relief effort.
How have Mojofitians helped so far?
On February 1, 2010, the Mojofiti Foundation donated $10,050 to the American Red Cross for Haiti. That equals $10 donated on behalf of each and every Mojofitian. Thank you!
Mojofiti is continuing to respond to the ongoing [...]
Haiti Imagery in Google Earth
When the devastating M 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on January 14th, we worked hard with our imagery partner GeoEye to acquire, process and publish their latest satellite imagery. To the general public this imagery illustrates the scale of destruction and to disaster response teams, it is an invaluable source to aid their efforts. To view this imagery, download the KML file here and open it in Google Earth. It is also viewable via the ‘Historical Imagery’ [...]
The suffering and devastation in Haiti is heartbreaking. Millions of people have been affected by this tragedy. The current death toll is estimated between 50,000 to 140,000. Please join Mojofiti in supporting the global relief effort.
How are you helping?
On February 1, 2010, the Mojofiti Foundation will donate $10 on behalf of every Mojofitian to the American Red Cross for Haiti.
For more information on how the Mojofiti Foundation can help charities with donations and language translation tools, please email Herb Allison [...]
A Little Bright Spot In The Dark
by Scott Lydon on January 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM
From: Bryan Meyers
Subject: Woot saved my life
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 5:23 PM
My name is Bryan Meyers. I have just been evacuated from the Haiti earthquake. One of the things I had with me when the quake started was my cell phone; stuck to its back was the Lumpod LED flashlight that I had received some time ago in a Woot Bag of Crap. I [...]
As kids get older, they report sending more and more text messages.
Average number of texts a day:
Boys ages 9-10: 3
Boys ages 11-13: 11
Girls ages 9-10: 4
Girls ages 11-13: 24
Read more about it at http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/0,27972,1954215,00.html
