HAITI CONNECT

Haiti Connect is delighted to announce the first public step in the process of establishing a Technology Start-up Business Accelerator in Haiti! We’ve become the first organisation offering the Microsoft BizSpark program to Haitian software start-ups. Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development [...]

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Fitting in with the establishment of a dedicated rapid-response unit as described in my earlier blogpost we have some more news. We are working in conjunction with Humanity Road (a US based organisation that we have been supporting for a long time) on exploring a collaborative exercise for RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) 2012. RIMPAC is the [...]

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We’ve hinted at it through some tweets recently but there are changes afoot for Haiti Connect. As the outlines and most details of these changes have now been decided we’re now able to share so details with you. EXPANSION Building on the experience gained in the two years since the Haiti earthquake running projects in [...]

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Zipcar has given us a bunch of $100 Zip-certificates. You can use these to rent a Zipcar in any of their location worldwide. We are auctioning these to with the proceeds going to our projects in Haiti. If you want to use Zipcars great service and support a worthwhile cause at the same time than [...]

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Crisiscamp Ireland is an event organised by Haiti Connect taking place on the NUIGcampus on February 26th. Through this event we hope to create an awareness amongst crisis response organizations, government agencies, and citizens on how open source software & hardware can be used to build and use technology tools to help respond to disasters and improve resiliency [...]

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