Can Facebook Help in an Emergency?
Via NPR comes word of a recently launched contest to identify ways to use Facebook in an emergency. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and hosted at the awesome challenge.gov site, the contest is based on the idea that:
- Bradley Kreit's blog
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Which resilient future? As many as we can imagine.
Increasing Global Resilience: women becoming key players in peace movements
Women are doing a lot of work to create equality and peace throughout Africa, not to mention the rest of the world. What’s more, as women come together to fight for peace they cross political, religious, and tribal or clan lines that are often used as tools to perpetuate war. In Liberia Christian and Muslim women got together for the first time in the country’s history when they stood up and demanded peace. Somalia’s 6th clan is a crosscut of all clans representing all Somali women.
- Tessa Finlev's blog
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Workbook in Resilience Assessment -- the Wiki
The Resilience Alliance, an organization promoting the study and support of social and environmental resilience, has converted its Resilience Assessment Workbooks into wiki format. According to the alliance's Allyson Quinlan,
