Technology Convergence Ideas

This page is for ideas about new ways to use technology during disasters.

Obama '08 iPhone App Is Grassroots Gadgety Perfection

This iPhone Application demonstrates how people can contact each other easily during a campaign and in ways supportive of the campaign's strategy. Substitute the word "disaster" for "campaign" and modify the app and voila', perhaps a new way for disaster volunteers to coordinate their actions.

Website that apportions civic tasks via Twitter etc

"Their unlaunched site, IfWeRantheWorld.com, should succeed in giving online activism some sorely-needed teeth. Rather than raising awareness, the site is set up to convert intent into action, to get things done."