Technology workers -- programmers, sysadmins, database developers, site designers, data entry folks, cable-layers, etc. etc. -- have stepped up in different ways to bring some network structure to the chaos of information swirling around in the vacuum of leadership following Katrina. Some notable examples:
The Katrina Help Wiki, based on a model developed for the tsunami aftermath, and based on wikipedia technology.
The Katrina PeopleFinder Project. For some background on this, see the Network-centric Advocacy press release on same.
The Public Web Stations project that provides an elegantly simple way of quickly setting up Internet kiosks to help evacuees connect to the online world to use the resources above. See the discussion on the Linux Desktop Forums for posts on where and how these webstations are being used.
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