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Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Smart Money – invest in changing how we approach disaster

Sunday, February 14, 2010

TL;DR we’re raising money to do the science required to put hexayurts on the ground in Haiti. you can help by giving Science for Humanity the cash for the research drive. click here ======= THE DETAILS ======= If you prefer, a Spanish translation from Lucas Gonzalez The Hexayurt Project is not a charity. It is [...]

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Crisis Camp London progress reports Feb 13 2010

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Click to Play http://crisiscamp.org http://crisiscampldn.org

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#CrisisCampLDN Team Leads meeting Noon Feb 13 2010

Saturday, February 13, 2010

http://crisiscamp.org http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Camp_London Team lead meeting, with briefing on the mapping task and google analytics task.

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Healing Haiti – slides from today’s talk in Leeds

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Mainly a discussion of how broad network access allows remote groups to help in disasters, and how we must think about helping out during disasters in poor-but-networked countries in totally new ways. Healing Haiti Or you can get the Healing Haiti slides as a PDF if you prefer.

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The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description

Monday, February 8, 2010

This document outlines the basic elements of the Hexayurt Shelter in general, and one specific configuration suitable for use in Haiti. It’s 17 pages, and covers a lot of the hurricane resistance features that we envisage using in Haiti this year. The Hexayurt in Haiti Or get the PDF version of the Hexayurt in Haiti. [...]

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SCIM: Individual Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps were on the telly

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Buttered Side Down’s Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps were on the telly! (iplayer link, Click, 31st of January 2010, 11m05s) We just did a little revision of the document, tidied up a few bits. You can see the full document here.

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