Take a gander at this part of InSTEDD's mission: "InSTEDD works with universities, corporations, international health
organizations, humanitarian NGOs and communities. Together, we work to
identify or craft and then field test technologies for better data
collection and analysis, more efficient communications, and more
effective response. InSTEDD will, for example, be adapting new social
networking capabilities for humanitarian coordination, and testing
inflatable satellite dishes able to be carried in a backpack.
InSTEDD’s mission is to discover, develop, test, deploy and share information about technologies that buy critical time. Through better disease detection and response times, outbreaks can be contained and possibly prevented. Through better disaster response, more lives can be saved. Through collaboration better answers can be found."
...wow...makes you wonder...if people like this can dream big about the impact that technology could have on responding to disasters - can we dream bigger about what learning can do?
