Report: Mobile technology, open-source community and Web services each have roles in future humanitarian relief missions. Haitians buried under rubble sent text messages with their locations. Open-source mapping communities documented the island using GPS and satellite technology. Workers had to reconstruct this data while simultaneously dealing with the crisis. The final study is due out in March, but the initial findings were released last week to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in January 2010, which claimed 230,000 lives and caused US$14 billion in damages.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126803/un–mobile-tech–web-services-to-aid-in-disaster-relief.html