Tips For Finding A Job With A Humanitarian Aid Organization

June 23, 2011

I’ll update this post with more thoughts but, for now, please ask questions in the comments section. Be sure to take a look at my Humanitarian Job Info page for links to organizations. Don’t overlook the importance of an internship/volunteer position Internships and volunteer positions may not pay a lot but they are worth their […]

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WSJ – Scientists Find an Achilles’ Heel in AIDS Virus

June 20, 2011

The Wall Street Journal has an article detailing the efforts of researchers at the Ragon Institute, a joint enterprise of Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University: Scientists using a powerful mathematical tool previously applied to the stock market have identified an Achilles heel in HIV that could be a prime […]

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Is Syria next?

June 10, 2011

I apologize for the slightly melodramatic title, and I know that some of you will point out that events have been unfolding for some time, but I am seriously wondering if those organized camps will soon swell with refugees. The Turks are well prepared for a large influx of refugees from Syria but those camps […]

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International Medical Corps Promo Video

June 8, 2011

Nicely done. Tweet

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BitMate – BitTorrent For the Less Privileged

March 6, 2011

Dritte‘s BitMate may solve the problems I touched in my last post and may serve as a solution for the mapping crowd including OSM HOT. Schuyler ran into this problem in Haiti as did Jeff and I in Indo. By circulating data locally it eliminates the need to burn up costly bandwidth. I am sure Aptivate […]

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Jeff, Go and some chicken and biscuits

February 9, 2011

In 2006 I founded an NGO called Humanlink. (There is no hyperlink because the site is down but it will be back up soon.) I started the organization because I wanted to help aid agencies better utilize technology. One of the first missions we ever undertook was in West Sumatra, Indonesia following the March 2007 […]

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The New York Times – Diagram of the Battle for Tahrir Square

February 3, 2011

The New York Times has a great looking info-graphic titled ‘Diagram of the Battle for Tahrir Square‘. Tweet

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Al Jazeera – Sudan: History of a Broken Land

January 8, 2011

Al Jazeera has created a very well made video covering the history of Sudan and the reason for the conflict between north and south. I’ll let you judge the content and how balanced the reporting is but overall it is a nice piece of work. I worked there back in 2002 and it looks like […]

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Logistician > Add to Cart > Checkout

January 8, 2011

Here is a very creative way to raise some money. The MSF warehouse in Canada has decided to sell field support staff online. You can now buy a logistician and send him/her off on a trip to a guaranteed austere environment. Here is what you get: Logisticians make sure that a medical project has a […]

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Ivory Coast Update

January 2, 2011

Bloomberg News is reporting that Liberia and Ghana are preparing for an influx of refugees. To understand how we got here read the Guardian’s “Ivory Coast’s descent into madness“. Karnplay Town and Saclepea look like the main catchment points in Nimba County, Liberia. MSF has been there for quite some time handling Liberian refugees returning […]

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