"Many architects perceive the disasters as opportunities to implement good design principles throughout the Gulf Coast. However, ... developments taking shape suggest that design professionals are being excluded from initial relief & planning efforts."
Suggestion for channeling collaborative efforts like the PeopleFinder Project, Hands On Network, and the Community Technology Center Network toward similar efforts for disaster preparedenss.
Call from Community Labor United "for evacuees from our community to actively participate in the rebuilding of New Orleans" and for the establishment of "a People's Hurricane Fund that will be directed and administered by New Orleanian evacuees".
A site that "takes housing postings from all over the web, and puts them together for your easy access". Includes a map-based search.
Overview and timeline of ad hoc coordination in developing PeopleFinder and other tools for supporting linking and recovery efforts fro Hurricane Katrina.
Blod discussion of using sociall tagging to support coordination and participation in Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery activities.
Blog dialogue on proposals to "bring together the best of the web — software, hardware, infrastructure, media, money — to start to gather around needs and solutions" for disaster recovery.
Multi-organizational partnership among some of the nation’s leading non-profit disaster relief organizations to maintain a joint shelter resident registration, shelter tracking module, and service site database.
This is a housing services hub for Katrina victims. You can offer up housing space for victims, or hurricane survivors can search for available rooms/houses/apts/etc.
Blog post outlining possibility for developing a web-based mapping system to serve as a clearinghouse for offers of housing and ridesharing for hurricane victims. Also includes some ideas for addressing trust issues.
