{"id":181095,"date":"2010-01-14T17:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T22:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/14\/tech-lends-a-hand-in-haiti-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-01-14T17:54:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T22:54:06","slug":"tech-lends-a-hand-in-haiti-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/181095","title":{"rendered":"Tech Lends a Hand in Haiti [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>As reports of the devastation and death toll in Haiti continue to rise, some tech companies are rolling out efforts to help. While the earthquake destroyed even the most basic infrastructure in some parts of the country, there are places where Internet is available \u2013 and, of course, it has also turned into a tool for raising money and awareness elsewhere around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the efforts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Web site called Haitian Earthquake Registry allows people to register and look for missing friends and relatives. (Similar \u201chuman search engine\u201d efforts developed after the 2008 earthquake in China\u2019s Sichuan province.)<\/li>\n<li>Companies including Intel (INTC), Cisco (CSCO) and Microsoft (MSFT) help support NetHope, an organization that works with 17 different relief groups to do things like set up the basic communications between agencies, and help coordinate reports and contact lists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/01\/14\/tech-lends-a-hand-in-haiti\/\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100114\/tech-lends-a-hand-in-haiti\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal As reports of the devastation and death toll in Haiti continue to rise, some tech companies are rolling out efforts to help. While the earthquake destroyed even the most basic infrastructure in some parts of the country, there are places where Internet is available \u2013 and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}