Thanks Eric for support this project. To all of you who want to donate, donations can be sent to directly to AHTIC account:
*Please find below the AHTIC bank account information so you can proceed with the money transfer. Please confirm this is the same information you have since the beginning. * * * *Bank account: *SOGEBANK *Bank Address : *Route de Delmas, Delmas 29, Port-au-Prince, HAITI *Account Number: *130212988 ** *Swift code : *SOGHHTPP *Beneficiary : *Association Haïtienne pour le Développement des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication *Beneficiary Address: *18, rue Moise, Pétion-Ville, HAITI For Telecom gears (like routers, servers, software and programing time, etc..) please contact Reynold Guerrier directly rey...@gmail.com, 509-3446-0099. Regards Reynold On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams <brun...@nic-naa.net>wrote: > Arg! The attachment died the death of "132485 bytes with a limit of 100 > KB". Oh well, it could have been the line eater bug in a USENET post. > > I posted an HTML version here: > http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2010/02/005491.html > > Cutting and Pasting (a high tech skill) yeilds: > > Project Title: Adopt-an-Haitian-Internet-technician-or-facility > > Project Description: The project aims to collect money and telecom gear to > provide mid-term financial aid to IT technicians that have been affected > with their families during the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Money, telecoms > gears, time, software, etc will serve to setup technology community centers > to support schools, universities, vocational centers that have collapsed. > > Begin Date > February 2010 > > End Date > August 2010 > > The Context: On the January 12, 2010, Haiti one of the poorest country in > the world is hurt by a 7.3 Earthquake that caused major damage to > Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, Leogane and other settlements around. Many notable > landmark buildings were significantly damaged or destroyed, including > schools, universities, vocational schools even the Port-au-Prince Cathedral, > and the main jail. Among those killed are a lot of technicians, students, > teachers. > > Many countries responded to appeals for humanitarian aid, pledging funds > and dispatching rescue and medical teams, engineers and support personnel. > Communication systems, air, land, and sea transport facilities, hospitals, > schools, universities, and electrical networks had been damaged by the > earthquake, which hampered rescue and aid efforts; confusion over who was in > charge, air traffic congestion, and problems with prioritization of flights > further complicated early relief work. As rescues tailed off, supplies, > medical care and sanitation become priorities. Among them we also need to > address education on a mid term run. With a lot of destroyed schools and > dead teachers e-learning can be a good way to overcome this problem. > > Deliverables and criteria for close-out > > The projects has 2 majors deliverables: > > 1. Providing financial support to at least 50 technicians whose houses > have been destroyed during the seism. The idea is getting them a job so they > don’t have to worry about their family basic needs and keeping them on their > workplace > 2. Setup mobile IT community centers to provide IT services to schools > and universities. > 3. Contents production for e-learning > > The project boundaries: This project aims to provide technical support to > teachers helping them putting their courses online or on DVD and make it > available for remote schools or schools whose teachers have been killed > during the quake. Data Center in a box will facilitate access to those > courses by the students. Project will be conducted in joint venture with the > Ministry of Education that will define the priority based on must affected > area and teacher availability. > > The main risks: The main risk of this project is not having enough funds to > address all the needs in supporting the schools in producing online courses > because it’s a well-known fact that in schools in Haiti adopted their own > curriculum ignoring sometimes the official one. The second concern > > Stakeholders: > Client(sponsor): Ministry of Education > > Project Manager: Reynold Guerrier > > Project Team: Reynold Guerrier, Max Larson Henry, > > Steering committee: Reynold Guerrier, Stéphane Bruno, Sergey Gaillard, > Roque Gagliano, Max Larson Henry > > Other Stakeholders: Local ISP, LACNIC, ISOC, IDB > > Budget and resources: ($, people, equipment, facilities, software, etc.) > > * 100,000.00 USD for salaries to support technicians and their family to > get them back on track > * 5 contents production units > * Production software > * Management software > > * 10 data center in a box > > Milestones > Date Key deliverables > > Feb-March 2010: Financial support to technicians and families > March 2010: Data center in a box > March-August 2010: Implementation period > > Bank Account Info: > Bank: SOGEBANK > Bank Address : Route de Delmas, Delmas 29, Port-au-Prince, HAITI > Account Number: 130212988 > > Swift code : SOGHHTPP > Beneficiary : Association Haïtienne pour le Développement des Technologies > de l’Information et de la Communication > Beneficiary Address: 18, rue Moise, Pétion-Ville, HAITI > > People interesting in working in Haiti can send me a skills and > availability statement too, but what is needed soonest is a budget that can > be applied to existing backfill cash needs passed through the AHTIC. > > Thanks and a tip o' the hat to Bill McCall who appraised me of the > truncation. > > Eric > > > -- =================================== Reynold Guerrier IT Consultant 509-3446-0099 IM: rey...@hotmail.com Skype: reygji
