Disaster Technology for Myanmar/Burma aid workers(为缅甸援救工作者提供的救灾技术)
Jesse Robbins
2008/05/08
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There is an ongoing crisis in Myanmar (Burma) in the aftermath of cyclone Nargis. The ruling military junta is finally allowing humanitarian organizations into the region after denying access for almost a week. The situation is grim, and you can help by donating to organizations like: Doctors without Borders, Direct Relief, and UNICEF. There has been some incredible discussion on the humanitarian tech and Geo lists in the past 24 hours around adapting/improving existing collaboration services to work with the tools in the field. Mikel Maron and I will be speaking about this at Where2.0 next week, and it looks like some exciting work will be happening there and at WhereCamp. Eduardo Jezierski from InSTEDD is currently working to localize the Sahana Disaster Management System Jonathan Thompson's organization, Humanlink, has been working on adapting technology for aid workers for some time. You can follow recent developments on the Aid Worker Daily blog. blog. It looks like the major relief worker websites are straining under load at the moment. Unfortunately most of the major news sites are linking directly to the sites causing the "disaster effect". I'm posting the recent situation reports below for those that are interested. I'm followed up with few of the major CDNs to see if they are willing to offer reverse-proxy services or mirrors. (Please contact me at jesse at oreilly dot com if your company is interested in helping.)
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缅甸正遭受热带风暴Nargis带来的严重危机。局势很遭，您可以通过这些组织提供帮助：Doctors without Borders、Direct Relief、UNICEF。 在过去的24小时里已经有一些关于人道主义援助技术和地理清单的讨论，围绕如何采用和提高现有协作服务与那里的工具合作。Mikel Maron和我将在下周Where 2.0上谈到这些，而且还有一些令人激动的工作将出现在会上以及WhereCamp上。 InSTEDD的Eduardo Jezierski正在加紧本地化Sahana灾难管理系统。 Jonathan Thompson的组织Humanlink也正在致力于向救灾工作者提供技术。你可以从援助工作者每日博客了解到最新进展。 救灾工作者网站好像在高负载下有些坚持不住了。不幸的是大多数新闻网站都是直接连到这个网站，这就引起了“灾难效应”。我把最近的情况报告贴在下面。我也在联系几个主要的内容分发网络看他们是否能提供反向代理或镜像。（如果你的公司能提供帮助请联系我jesse at oreilly dot com。） |
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