Infographic: Disasters in the age of new media and social sharing

Team Rubicon: reflecting the motivation of so many others.

Time Rubicon is one of the great volunteer organisations that grew out of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and that have developed into organisations providing expert care & assistance. They are a clear example of how a grassroots approach can work better than the large lumbering NGO’s. In the following video they talk about their work [...]

“Checkins with a purpose”; using location based services in disaster response..

One of the factors that led to my involvement in the disaster response and rebuilding after the Haitian earthquake last year started many years before after the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean in late 2004. At the time I was following the disaster recovery efforts closely and one of the things I noticed was [...]

Another disaster in the making

For some time now I have been saying that the current situation in Haiti could lead to a disaster of a a similar or even larger scale than the January 2010 earthquake. More than 6 months after the quake and with billions of dollars pledged in aid there are still over 1 million people living [...]