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Tech NGOs Working In Haiti
d5w writes "There are a thousand and one NGOs responding in some way to the disaster in Haiti, but the necessary infrastructure is usually overlooked when people give charity donations. In fact, some popular donation sites actively downgrade charities for spending on infrastructure. Here are two organizations responding in Haiti, though, that have a purely tech infrastructure focus: Télécoms Sans Frontières brings mobile telecom rigs and satellite phones to disaster sites, making sure that responders on the ground can communicate with each other and that individuals can contact families abroad; here's an eWeek story about TSF. MapAction sends experienced GIS people and GPS equipment to provide up-to-date mapping, which is important when the landscape has just changed drastically. Any others?"
You do realize no matter how big the government numbers look, the private sector (businesses, individuals, and churches) usually trumps it in spades right?
Of course just by your statement I know what side of the political fence you are on, because conservatives are much more generous than liberals as a whole, because we feel it is our duty to take care of our family first, our neighbor second, and our government third. The left believe in government taking care of us first, our families second, and our neighbors third, and using a redistributive tax to do so.
I'm not just spouting that, it's a common difference between left and right, and way of thinking, with research from both sides of the isle finding it true. If you don't like it, then perhaps you should rethink your ideology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html?_r=3
http://blog.fortiusone.com/2009/01/07/dataset-of-the-day-who-is-more-generous-republicans-or-democrats/
http://blog.american.com/?p=9220