Posts Tagged ‘crisis’

Help support Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts at a CrisisCamp this weekend across the globe

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Do you want to help with Sandy response? Come design, code, and learn with other peopleĀ this weekend at a CrisisCamp!

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Babelverse: Using the phone for real-time Japanese translation for crisis workers

Friday, March 18th, 2011

When web developers Mayel de Borniol and Josef Dunne saw the catastrophe in Japan, they new how they could help. They’d spend the last few months creating Babelverse (@babelverse on Twitter), a live human translation service. And even though the company wasn’t quite ready to launch, they spent the whole night pushing to get the product out the door.

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