Setting up wireless in Haiti
Dat Nguyen
Haiti 6 to 9 months from now and setup WIFI gear for schools and
public buildings.
Sam Churchill
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Tyler van Houwelingen
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Keith Lofstrom
> > I was wondering if there is any interest in getting a crew down to
> > Haiti 6 to 9 months from now and setup WIFI gear for schools and
> > public buildings.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:45:52PM -0500, Tyler van Houwelingen wrote:
> I know the folks at Clearwire have started setting up a WiMAX network down
> there last weekend for the relief efforts. They sure need the help.
Humaninet.org is a spinoff of Northwest Medical Teams that coordinates
emergency communications for other NGOs during disasters. They mostly
use satphones, and do a lot of coordination of the US end of the link
(so the people on site can focus on the mission, not busy signals) but
they also do wifi. Right now, they are very busy, but there is a lot
of logistical support that can be done from Portland - locating spare
parts and arranging to get them delivered, etc.
Right now, the main problem is logistics - getting vital supplies
delivered in spite of destroyed infrastructure. I would think long
and hard about going there myself and displacing a few hundred
pounds of medical supplies.
That said, there will be plenty of opportunities to help at this end
now, and at the other end when there is more space on planes and
power for the user devices we want to provide communications for.
Keith
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Sam Churchill
CrisisCampPDX is one of a dozen similar events this weekend organized by CrisisCommons</a> (crisiscommons.org). Volunteers will gather in a BarCamp-style unconference to provide technical support to relief efforts on the ground in Haiti.
(http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2010/01/crisiscamp_aims_to_provide_rem.html) (http://twitter.com/crisiscamppdx)
Nigel Ballard, who spearheaded a Katrina mobilization, says 52 of 60 of the Motorola Expedience (Pre-WiMAX) base station sites are now back online, and 75% of ISP capacity restored via Dominican Republic
(http://twitter.com/bowlieweekender)
(http://www.joejava.com/HurricaneAftermath.htm)
- Sam
(http://www.dailywireless.org/haiti)
Sam Churchill
Joe Christenson's MotoSat dish to a Department of Transportation
portable sign trailer. It uses solar panels and a battery bank. Get
them cheap on E-Bay.
On the trailer we'd store 1-2 telescoping ham antennas, a couple of
10x10 canopys, 5-6 Merakis, and folding tables and chairs. A mobile
Field Day rig. The whole thing would power half a dozen laptops in two
locations for 3 days, and the solar panel could extend that. Joe could
drive up his MotoSat Dish or Greg Swanson could couple his Inmarsat
mobile internet cafe terminal. The Merakis would extend coverage
through mesh. Probably get 5 miles with another telescoping ham
antenna.
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Michael Weinberg
> When the subduction zone earthquake comes, here's what we do; hook up
> Joe Christenson's MotoSat dish to a Department of Transportation
> portable sign trailer. It uses solar panels and a battery bank. Get
> them cheap on E-Bay.
Just to be clear, do we hit up eBay before or after the earthquake?
> On the trailer we'd store 1-2 telescoping ham antennas, a couple of
> 10x10 canopys, 5-6 Merakis, and folding tables and chairs. A mobile
> Field Day rig. The whole thing would power half a dozen laptops in two
> locations for 3 days, and the solar panel could extend that. Joe could
> drive up his MotoSat Dish or Greg Swanson could couple his Inmarsat
> mobile internet cafe terminal. The Merakis would extend coverage
> through mesh. Probably get 5 miles with another telescoping ham
> antenna.
Once all this is setup, what is it for? Outside communication? Local
coordination?
All these disaster response ideas sound neat, but it's not entirely
clear to me what is useful and what is an exercise in geeking out for
geeking out's sake.
Michael
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Gary
> here's what we do; hook up ... to a Department of Transportation
> portable sign trailer. ... Joe could drive up his MotoSat Dish or Greg
> Swanson could couple his Inmarsat mobile internet cafe terminal.
Are you planning a road trip to Haiti? I don't think US Hwy 1 goes
that far South. ;)
-Gary
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Marino Duregon
> I've put a website up for our relief effort: Www.haiti-connect.org
>
> Evert.
Yes ! Everybody interested in the Haiti relief effort please contact Evert.
Marino
Dat Nguyen
I think the idea in installing wireless gear in town 30 to 40 miles
outside of Port Au Prince. If you do you go Haiti mostly going to be
manual labor in physical rebuilding schools and 15 to 20 percent doing
wireless gear. The high hood it that we would team up with a large
group a rebuild a school. Also there is going to be a lot of work
portland side. I really would like to brain storm ideas.
I am flying to Atlanta in two weeks, to meet with couple of
nonprofits that is interested in doing like a school barn raising and
we would help them wireless stuff.
My Phone Google Voice is 503. Seven Four One 96 Two One.
Dat
2010/1/21 Marino Duregon <mdur...@pobox.com>:
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Street: 117 NW 5th Street,
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http://haiti-connect.org
I had a chat with a my local doctor today about what shots are
required before going to Haiti.
In short anyone going there will need recent vaccinations for the following:
Hepatitus A
Hepatitus B
Typhoid
Malaria
Tetanus
Diphteria
Michael Rasmussen
> I had a chat with a my local doctor today about what shots are
> required before going to Haiti.
> In short anyone going there will need recent vaccinations for the following:
>
> Hepatitus A
> Hepatitus B
> Typhoid
> Malaria
> Tetanus
> Diphteria
Please note the Hepatitus B, and possibly others, require a series of
innoculations.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-hep-b.pdf
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Michael Weinberg
comm infrastructure for relief agencies. Gregg Swanson, their
Executive Director and Founder came to a PTP meeting a few years ago.
They sometimes do simulations, locally, where would be relief-geeks
can come explore the technical side of humanitarian relief.
You can volunteer from anywhere, according to their site:
http://www.humaninet.org/volunteers.html
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Keith Lofstrom
> Keith mentioned HumaniNet, but I'll second them. They are all about
> comm infrastructure for relief agencies. Gregg Swanson, their
> Executive Director and Founder came to a PTP meeting a few years ago.
> They sometimes do simulations, locally, where would be relief-geeks
> can come explore the technical side of humanitarian relief.
>
> You can volunteer from anywhere, according to their site:
>
> http://www.humaninet.org/volunteers.html
An excellent point, Michael! A slight modification to the standing
request, though ... I got a list mailing from Gregg Swanson a few
days ago saying they are very busy with critical tasks right now,
please don't email with routine offers of help, or stuff that can
wait. Most of their needs involve setting up satellite phones for
NGOs, and people stateside that can solve all manner of logistic
problems here for the people in-country. They need generators and
fuel - satphones and medical refrigerators are power hungry, and
portable solar panels don't cut it. Longer term, they have plenty
of tasks for all manner of geeks, and 90% of that is stateside.
I'm very attracted to what they do, but I discussed it with Gregg
a couple of years ago, and we decided that I probably have the
wrong personality for field work. They need people that have a
heck of a lot of patience and adaptability, who can keep their
heads in crisis situations, who can lead or follow without being
resentful or controlling. People who can get drunk with the
natives when the situation demands it, but not for the sake of
getting drunk. People who can be calm and friendly after spending
the night sleeping with livestock. Permanent campout. No
perfectionists need apply. You have to be able to talk a teenager
with an AK-47 pointed in your face out of shooting you, then get
on with your tasks. I am an engineer, and very good at what I do,
but they need people that can get do lots of jury rigs fast in
extemely broken situations. They need people like me at home.
Read their website, and extrapolate from their needs, not from
your skills.