InSTEDDOpen Source Software that saves lives

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Immediate loss of lifeBreakdown of infrastructureFood, water, basic sanitationCivil unrest, looting, anarchy

Disease outbreaks

Aid agencies mobilize, but it takes time.Efforts are hampered by lack of infrastructure.Dozens of organizations trying to help means

duplication of effort or worse.

WILL TECHNOLOGY SAVE THE DAY?

Innovative Support To Emergencies,Diseases, & Disasters

InSTEDD builds software that helps with disaster & disease response coordination.

Globally, 25% of people have access to the internet.60% have mobile phones.

HaitiJanuary 12, 2010

217,000 people died2.4% of the population

Within days of the quake, InSTEDD deployed the Emergency Information Service they developed for

the Thomson Reuters Foundation

Eduardo Jezierskitwitter.com/edjez

While most of us are measuring our success at work by things like page

views, conversion rates and ROI, people like Eduardo are measuring their success

by how many lives they save.

YOU CAN, TOO

SoftwareGeoChat, Mesh4X, Twitter Bots, Riff

GeoChat for iPhone & Android

DesignFilter 4000 messages per day to 400 worth tagging

Collaborative interaction with realtime dataMessages + Location on Mobile

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