One of the projects I’m involved with (as a Board member and general layabout) is HumanLink, the brainchild of Jonathan Thompson. Jonathan decided that not enough is being done to develop technology solutions for the field, and decided to use his expertise and connections to set up an organisation to do just that. That new HLink website is now up and running (and looks good – well done, guys!) and we recently had a link in from the smart fellows at Ogle Earth, with a few links on to some new imagery in Tagzania. Good news all round, and hopefully the momentum behind HumanLink will build from here to expand the service delivery.
(Jonathan and Jeff Allen have also been playing around with Clark Connect, a Linux server gateway which I didn’t know much about previously, but looks interesting as a way of providing connectivity over low bandwidth.)
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I have just taken a look at this website, I am really up for businesses / charities that use the power of the internet in order to bring about global aid and relief. Nice.
Mark Bowness
Is HumanLink like a disasters and emergencies versions of GeekCorps then?
It’s something like a cross between GeekCorps and Telecoms sans Frontieres, but with the idea of developing new tools, not just deploying new people.