Comments on: The Nuts and Bolts Behind 4636 in Haiti

By: Ronny Hoffman

Ronny Hoffman — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:38:18 +0000

I was a translator for this mission, and I know we saved many lives through Our work! I didn’t sleep for days, because I needed to help those in dispare. Each one of my brothers and sisters deserve a lot of RESPÉ for their hard work!

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By: Endangered Languages and Cultures » Blog Archive » Crowd-sourcing translations in disaster areas

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:30:48 +0000

[...] back on the ground with coordinates, message and return #”? 10 minutes. Brilliant. Read the report on it by a linguist, Rob Munro, who’s been coordinating the volunteer efforts. Praise be to [...]

By: Fast-moving vs. slowly-moving data | IVIAP

Fast-moving vs. slowly-moving data | IVIAP — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:33:33 +0000

[...] the recent Haiti earthquake crisis, an SMS alert system was put in place in an attempt to allow people on-the-ground to request aid and/or report a [...]

By: Digital Democracy | The Power of Volunteers part 1: Haiti

Digital Democracy | The Power of Volunteers part 1: Haiti — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:18:19 +0000

[...] apps and more. Thousands of volunteers contributed to the OpenStreetMap of Port-au-Prince, and hundreds of Haitian-Americans helped translate text messages from Kreyol to English once a Haitian shortcode was [...]

By: Relief 2.0 Conference at Stanford: Agile Crisis Response | Tom's Two Cents

Relief 2.0 Conference at Stanford: Agile Crisis Response | Tom's Two Cents — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:54:20 +0000

[...] One of the most interesting projects that was share was Mission 4636, which allows people in Haiti to text their requests for medical care, food, water, and shelter. Many people in Haiti have cell phones, and It’s a little known fact that cell phones still worked in the hours after the earthquake. The 4636, toll-free number was set up to established to meet the urgent needs of the Haitian people. Mission 4636 connect volunteer Kreyol translators to convert the messages into English so relief workers can respond. Here is how it works (from the Ushahidi blog): [...]

By: Voices from 4636 Haiti, first hours after the quake « Provocate

Voices from 4636 Haiti, first hours after the quake « Provocate — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:09:22 +0000

[...] that had been used for weather information in Haiti. They rushed to get several other partners like Ushahidi, which provides an open-source platform for tracking crisis communications, and Google on board. A [...]

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