
Texts and Tweets Saving Lives in Haiti

Filed under: Social Networking As relief efforts on the earthquake-ravaged island of Haiti continue, social media and mobile technology are playing an increasingly important role in assisting rescue workers. While millions of people have been texting monetary donations from abroad, many others in the eye of the disaster are using texts and tweets to communicate with volunteers, and to help them save lives. With even the island’s most basic communicative infrastructure destroyed, people have turned to their cell phones as the primary way to notify rescue workers of dangerous situations or of neighbors in need. Organizations like the nonprofit Energy for Opportunity have descended upon the island to help facilitate communication via text, which can be difficult in a situation where language barriers between international relief workers and …


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