Critt Jarvis

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Doctors Without Borders

Haiti: HOWTO set up a plug-and-play hospital – Doctors Without Border

Logic and emotion

It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, the energy to run the country, the resettling of people.

Last week I felt that “What the world community does now, defines the dominant logic and emotion of “globalization.” At the very least “the world community response will be illustrative of the nature of the huge complex process of globalization.”

The affirmative burden of responsibility

In Haiti, I believe we are witnessing a full spectrum response, working across domains and layers of responsibility. We are prepared; but we come on the fly, as well, strategically self-organizing. Yet, as good as we do now, the questions are coming: Who should do what? And when? And how?

Going forward, What will be the dominant logic and emotion of mutually assured dependence? Where and with whom will we locate the affirmative burden of responsibility?

The following excerpts illustrate my observations of the last week. Each is linked to a full text post.

Thursday, January 14, 2010, at 5:40

Haiti: After the aid rushes in…

… What’s next?

To what will you commit?

For how long?

Just saying.

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Friday, January 15, 2010, at 9:30 pm

Haiti: If not (long) now, then when)

Perturbating the order of civilization

Doctors are on the way

After the aid rushes in

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Saturday, January 16, 2010, at 6:25 pm

Inaction in Haiti: The power of regret

Why why we make mistakes and the power of regret:

“If we are going to err at something, we would rather err by failing to act.”

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Sunday, January 17, 2010, at 3:06 pm

Bringing Forth Sense and Structure in Haiti

The Crisis in Haiti

Initial Response

Sense and Structure

Global is Local, Strategically Speaking

Resilience, Revitalization

Social Networking: Enabling Resilience

Participate, React, Create, Connect

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 4:04 am

Haiti: On what basis do we say no?

Earthquakes make bad laws

Immigrants and refugees: Who gets chosen?

A difficult question

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 4:02 pm

Why I think it’s a great country now

Let history show

When lessons are learned

The value of retrospect

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 6:57 pm

World-Wide Earthquake Locator: Mapping Interface

Who knew?

Earthquakes TW3: That was the week that was

Who you gonna call?

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at 10:40 pm

The Disaster Accountablity Project

Observers “R” Us

How to participate

Connect via Twitter and Facebook

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Thursday, January 21, 2010, at 9:53 am

An app for that: The Enterra

Regeneration

The poetic hymn

Underneath the hood

Code name: The Enterra

Regeneration

Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third;
there must be some bond of union between them.
And the fairest bond is that which makes
the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines;
and proportion is best adapted to effect such a union. -Plato

The poetic hymn

“There’s an app for that.”

Underneath the hood

[black box matrix] + [secret sauce] = [recombinator], par excellence)

Code name: The Enterra

Prior art: An iPhone app, social networking recombinator.

Observers “R” Us

“We need to be able to independently assure ourselves and Congress that DHS has implemented many of our past recommendations or has taken other corrective actions to address the challenges we identified. However, DHS has not made its management or operational decisions transparent enough so that Congress can be sure it is effectively, efficiently, and economically using the billions of dollars in funding it receives annually, and is providing the levels of security called for in numerous legislative requirements and presidential directives.” (GAO-07-395T, Page 28, 3/9/07)

How to participate

Sign up to help verify gaps in disaster relief services by becoming a Disaster Accountability Monitor You can also share your disaster story, by submitting your own testimonial and recommendations to improve the nation’s disaster response/relief systems.

Connect via Twitter and Facebook

Twitter: Disaster Oversight
Causes on Facebook: Disaster Accountability Project

Who knew?

Like so many who live in the popular culture and subcultures called America, unless network news, blogging journalists, or my Twitter stream calls attention, I’m unlikely to know of ground shaking events beyond shout outs from The Algorithmic Authority. However, once I know what I’m looking for–let’s say, “earthquake reports global“–then Google’s pretty handy.

Earthquakes TW3: That was the week that was

Turns out, Port-au-Prince, Haiti is not the only place experiencing seismic activity. Check out Edinburgh Earth Observatory’s Earthquake Locator: Mapping Interface. Evidently, there may be more coming to the disaster management and humanitarian relief efforts, sooner than we appreciate.

Who you gonna call?

Me? May I suggest the folks at the Center for Excellence, Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance?