I gave a talk yesterday at the Center for Global Development. If I were the sort of person to have favorite thinktanks, they’d top my… Read More »Talking Bridgeblogs at the Center for Global Development
Update: The interface to search the PeopleFinder database is up. According to our friends at Salesforce.com, there are now 87,000 records in the database, all… Read More »Recovery 2.0 – thoughts on what worked and failed on PeopleFinder so far
Thanks to everyone who’s offered help on the Katrina PeopleFinder project. As of this morning, more than 68,000 records had been created in the database… Read More »Katrina PeopleFinder
We got amazing turnout of data entry volunteers yesterday afternoon. At one point, we likely had about 100 people entering data simultaneoulsy. That was a… Read More »Update on Katrina Data Entry
UPDATE: Lots and lots of folks were good enough to volunteer – enough that it brought down the database for a few hours. We’re back… Read More »Need help with volunteer data entry
Dozens of efforts are taking place – online and offline – to make it possible for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina to contact one another.… Read More »Voicemail and databases for Hurricane Survivors