Via Gizmodo, sent to me by Darcy:
I’m getting ready to leave tomorrow morning for Houston, as part of a team of volunteers working with CU Wireless (under the auspice of the FCC and FEMA) to establish wireless communications networks in the Gulf Coast region. We’re in need of equipment and supplies in the Houston or Baton Rouge area.
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If you’re in the Houston (or even Austin) area and can contribute to our teams, we’d really appreciate it. I’ll be posting updates of some of the things going on here on Gizmodo, as well as pictures taken by Jake or me.
[…]READ ABOUT THE ENTIRE PLAN, which includes bringing the ISP a chemical toilet, etc., etc.
Gizmodo is a great blog. I’m glad to see they are using their popularity and knowledge to help the Katrina victims.
Check out this post on Design Sponge. It’s a link to a group that helps displaced designers get back on their feet and get back to work.
I hope they´ll have more luck than this German company.
In Germany, a massive telecommunication system and two technicians await the green light to fly to Louisiana, after its donors spent four days searching for someone willing to accept the gift.
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German telecommunications company KB Impuls contacted another company, Unisat, based in Rhode Island, with the idea of contributing an integrated satellite and cellular telephone system.
In a region with its communications systems in tatters, the $3 million system could handle 5,000 calls at once, routing them, if necessary, through Germany.