[iDC] Civic intelligence in Haiti Recovery?

[Gina Neff]

A great book on the social nature of disaster is Eric Klinenberg's  
Heatwave.

Gina

Sent from my handheld device while attempting to juggle multiple things.

On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Douglas Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org 
 > wrote:

> distributed creativity....
>
> A friend of mine is planning to volunteer in Haiti with Architecture
> for Humanity in March or April. He plans to work with construction
> workers and other skilled people on reconstruction. He is also
> interested in IT and the development of the communications and the
> general SOCIAL infrastructure after the emergency.
>
> I told him that my own knowledge of this is pretty shallow I'd ask
> around in places where the knowledge is likely to be deeper. Are there
> important, interesting projects that he (and others) should know  
> about?
>
> In addition to hoping that the people of Haiti can recover from this
> and lead lives with less hardship in the future I'm interested in
> understanding civic intelligence, particularly how it can be improved
> -- inside and outside of Haiti, in non-emergency and emergency  
> situations. I'm working on a theory (or "theory frame") of civic
> intelligence so any insights you have on this -- as well as notes from
> the Haiti emergency -- would be extremely welcome.
>
> Please get back to me with your thoughts on this as soon as you get
> the opportunity.
>
> BTW, our "Civic Intelligence" pattern is at http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/200
>  and our "Emergency Communication Systems" pattern is at http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/320
> .
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Douglas Schuler
> douglas at publicsphereproject.org
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