On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Michael Gurstein
<gurstein@gmail.com> wrote:
Colleagues,
A close Japanese colleague and friend
-- Izumi Azu -- is currently in Japan
and is working to help identify and
coordinate ICT resources for community
relief.
He has a lot of
skills and contacts with ICTs but more on the governance and
policy side.
He has asked me to introduce him (and the group he is working
with)
to resources that might be useful in supporting community
self-help
(including through civic governments) in Japan.
I'm
setting up an e-list "Japan-emergency" but that may take a couple of
days
for approvals to I've repurposed this disused e-list for the moment
to
enable our discussions--I'll transfer subscriptions and relevant
e-mails to
the new list once it is up and running.
I've taken the
liberty, based on my past knowledge with you folks to
subscribe you to
this list. If you wish not to be included for whatever
reason please send
me a private email and I'll remove you immediately.
For the moment
the list is closed but the archives will be open and I'll
circulate that
info in due course.
(Preliminarily I've included folks with contacts
in Ushaidi (Don Cameron),
the Stanford Liberation Tech group (Yosem
Companys), a group that developed
software resoources out of Katrina
(Tara Friedrichs), folks with access to
the community networking
movements in the US and beyond (Michael Maranda and
Steve Clift), someone
with access to the range of peer to peer resources
(Michel Bauwens),
Katrin Verclas who is in touch with the very wide range
of
wireless/mobile activistis, Ravi Palepu who has good private sector
and UN
linkages, and a Japanese Canadian friend (Joy Kogawa) who has
access to the
range of Japanese Canadian organizations and
individuals.
Since we are looking to extend the range of contacts and
thus access to
possible resources etc. please send along other
contacts/emails etc. after
having cleared it with the individuals and
I'll add them manually to this
list.
Perhaps Izumi might give a
brief intro to the current situation and
particularly how we as concerned
outsiders might be of some assistance.
(I'm currently in North
Eastern Brazil with sometimes difficult e-access to
my responses may be
somewhat slower than usual.)
Best to
all,
Mike