Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

To supplement this section, we compiled the best disaster preparedness apps from TechSoup donation partners, government agencies, other nonprofits, and more. Android, iOS, Windows Phone) connects you with friends and family during a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane. Government Agency Apps.

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Disaster Blackberry Hurricane Map 72

NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

" Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. In the five years since Hurricane Katrina, social media has exploded, and its potential for use in crises was clear after the Haiti earthquake.

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Disaster Haiti Social Media Hurricane 89

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The company operates what it calls an “ocean intelligence platform,” essentially a real-time map of various important oceanic metrics like currents, temperature, weather and so on. That’s just what Sofar Ocean has, and it just raised $39 million to scale up its vision of real-time understanding of the seven seas.

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Network Hurricane Data Info 89

Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . Institutional disaster philanthropy may be small in comparison to government funding. In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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Disaster Puerto Rico Lesson Palau 72

Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 Finally, we invite you to explore our updated funding map to answer such questions as: Where did funding for a particular disaster come from?

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Disaster Philanthropy Data Hurricane 59

Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2020

Early in my career, I worked on the Race for the Cure in Houston when a hurricane swept through 10 days before our event. Our mission to end cancer is equally important as the hurricane relief efforts. Our mission to end cancer is equally important as the hurricane relief efforts.

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Fundraising Hurricane Tips Registration 41

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. Spawned by exaggerated fears, governments and content publishers distrusted their constituents or audiences and would only release information once it had been filtered, cleansed, or massaged. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest.

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Management District of Columbia DC Feeds 52

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where its headed. In fact, a large number of private companies use NOAA data to create fancy maps and other weather products that they sell.

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Companies Colorado Picture National 107

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot. FEMA maps are increasingly becoming obsolete; 100-year floods are happening every few years. The list goes on.

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Tech Czech Republic Hurricane Government 136

Forum One

JUNE 2, 2022

Late last year a new Executive Order focused attention on what many government agencies already strive to do: provide an efficient, reliable customer experience (CX) to citizens accessing government services like passports, social security, and small business loans. Not part of a government agency? 2) What about accessibility?

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Government Experiment Lesson Hurricane 46

Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane. We did start a group hurricane blog after Wilma, thankfully we have not put it to good use. There’s a lot in here that applies to the government [.] No electricity, no computer, thus I really need that new toy.

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Flickr Charity Social Media Twitter 40

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 2, 2025

But it’ll also fall on state and local governments. . “There wont be [mortgage] ATMs, there wont be banks [lending mortgages], so it’ll fall on homeowners and residents. Which is what you see happening now, where they’re stepping in, in states where insurance is going away. In fact, 12 of the 20 major U.S.

Florida 98

Florida Louisiana Marketing Map 98

NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Available as an easy-to-deploy NVIDIA NIM microservice , the model is already being used by weather technology companies, researchers and government agencies to enhance their forecasts. weather data, with sample datasets of real-world natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, winter storms, tornados and cold waves.

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Taiwan Disaster San Jose Generation 134

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Malynndra Tome was helping to map livestock ponds in the Navajo Nation when she saw something that inspired her to act. In September, more than 100,000 residents in western North Carolina were under boil-water notices for nearly two months after Hurricane Helene destroyed much of a local water system.

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Community System Los Angeles Change 114

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) also plays a significant role by helping cities and states rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires, and other climate impacts. Rebuild by Design began as a HUD-launched design competition in 2013 to respond to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. Meanwhile, 99.5%

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Disaster Hurricane Fund Mississippi 130