[P2P-F] ICTs and Community Relief in the Japanese Emergency, call for technical assistance

Thu Mar 17 11:50:25 CET 2011

That's great Michel, thanks. I was expecting that you would be an
appropriate person to help make that link...

Best,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Bauwens [mailto:michelsub2004 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:55 AM
To: Michael Gurstein
Cc: p2p-foundation; The Next Net
Subject: ICTs and Community Relief in the Japanese Emergency, call for
technical assistance

Dear Michael,

this info came too late and I unsubbed already, but I'm really overwhelmed,

an alternative is to send your request at least once to our p2p-f list, and
to 'next net' to see who can help there, so I cc both list for this request,

if anyone on these lists want to join your efforts and call, they can let
you know,

Michel

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at 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

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