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Gretchen describes how Twitter aided her recovery efforts in Hait.

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Haiti Event Follow-up PDF Print E-mail
Haiti - Haiti

This page will be updated in the next week [April 29, 2010]


In early April the Developing Country Network along with the Students at Dartmouth for Haiti Relief and the Dartmouth Global Health Coalition hosted an event on Haiti.  It was entitled, Haiti: reports from the field and how the Upper Valley might respond.

Ano Lobb, an E-Learning Specialist fromThe Dartmouth Instititute generously filmed the evening so that people who missed it could still capture the talks.
 
So far he has sent links to a video teleconference call of Richard Garfield from Columbia University, PhD: Haiti & the humanitarian emergency as interviewed on video by Sharon McDonnell.  He makes a number of insightful points about reconstruction and what is going on there.  It is broken into the following 2 segments: 

 

Additional speakers included: 

Caitlin Brooking, Hands on Gulf Coast. Comparisons between Haiti and Katrina.  

Reports directly from the field: what they experienced & how we can contribute
•  Gretchen Wallace, Global Grassroots: the effectiveness of small group response and social Networking
•  Dr. Brian Remillard, DHMC: overview of the sister city project
•  Dr. Paul Gerke, Medical Mission Exchange: mapping initiative for health care institutions in Haiti
•  Greg Trotter, Valley News Staff Writer & Jason Johns, Valley News Photographer:  a perspective on media

Molly Bode, Dartmouth Haiti Response Coordinator:  How to Help.  The opportunities. (5 min)

Photographs of Haiti: Jason John, Valley News Photographer

More videos will be added.