All, Attached is a project description by Reynold Guerrier, Network Engineer and Treasurer of the Association Haïtienne pour le développement des technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (AHTIC). I know many have helped and many have offered to help, and kit and people have been sent, and are continuing to be sent, however there is an unmet need, the continuation of the "fuel, food, families" trio that kept the Boutilliers NAP powered and its surviving technical team intact. And the most effective aid is cash, which enables the recipients to prioritize according to their needs, and the bulk purchases of aid recipients proximal to them. The budget and resources for this project is as follows: o $100,000 for salaries to support technicians and their family to get them back on track o 5 content production units o Production software o Management software o 10 data center in a box The data centers in a box resource was identified by Reynold on the 19th, a week after the quake, when he wrote to NANOG:
We would like to provide to the haitian government a UC systems with several branches:
o President office: 10 endpoints o Prime Minister office: 10 endpoints o 12 mayor city hall offices: 3 for each: 36 endpoints o Ministries (9 differents locations 3 for each): 27 endpoints o Communications Center: 20 endpoints o emergency Clusters: 14 ednpoints
Total: 117 endpoints
So if someone can provide recommendations, equipment, skilled technician for that it would be fine.
There is wire transfer information in the attached pdf, and if anyone finds that cumbersome drop me a note and we'll work something out. Yes, there are a lot of aid dollars going to Haiti, but dollars given to AHTIC will go specifically to re-build the network infrastructure and keep the families of the surviving engineers and technicians fed and their basic needs met. Thanks in advance, Eric
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
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 reygue@gmail.com, 509-3446-0099. Regards Reynold On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@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: reygue@hotmail.com Skype: reygji
As a matter of form, how might one check out the legitimacy of requests like this? (No, I don't think this one is fake...)
I got your point Steven. It's an initiative of the AHTIC the Haitian Association for the ICT development, Reports will be available on the funds will be used. http://www.ahtic.ht http://www.e2tech.ht Those sites are references of the AHTIC organizations. Regards reynold On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>wrote:
As a matter of form, how might one check out the legitimacy of requests like this? (No, I don't think this one is fake...)
-- =================================== Reynold Guerrier IT Consultant 509-3446-0099 IM: reygue@hotmail.com Skype: reygji
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:47 -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
As a matter of form, how might one check out the legitimacy of requests like this? (No, I don't think this one is fake...)
(it isn't, for the benefit of any casual observers) Technically, a `Very Good Point`. We'd all like to think we're not Discuss.. I'm thinking: a personally-known web-of-trust, for a start. NANOG is a small, specialist community. I'm also thinking most are familiar with PGP/GnuPG, so most if not all of us can provide proof, even if we don't normally. Gord -- SNMPv1:Flawful Intercept :)
Steve, Hmm. Are there other requests like this one? I suppose the pilot's associations may be trying to raise money to fix the secondary airfields -- a note from a member of Congress who's significant other has been shuttling a Cessna and stand-alone early relief payloads from the US VI to secondary fields in Haiti made me think of that as another social affiliation targeted activity. I'm sure others are possible. There is the general problem of control, one reason the IRC contacted CORE was to investigate a .redcross so that they could reduce their loss to disaster fraud. Of course, we have to wait on ICANN to get a .redcross or .icrc or ... .ouch into the root so that it becomes more generally useful as a trusted sink of private and public packetized cash. Then there is the specific problem of opportunity. We didn't wait until FEMA authorized us to begin work when Katrina impacted the NOLA and surrounding area, and if had, more would have died than did. As we, who are not in the humanitarian relief line of work, look at the loss of our peers, do we act, or do we leave specific tasks to the general relief agencies? I don't have a "best answer" and I'm aware that aid is difficult, for all involved. Eric On 2/8/10 12:47 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
As a matter of form, how might one check out the legitimacy of requests like this? (No, I don't think this one is fake...)
There is the general problem of control, one reason the IRC contacted CORE was to investigate a .redcross so that they could reduce their loss to disaster fraud. Of course, we have to wait on ICANN to get a .redcross or .icrc or ... .ouch into the root so that it becomes more generally useful as a trusted sink of private and public packetized cash.
I'd leave that statement and discussion for another thread, I think that stating that the DNS and ICANN's mission is to provide certain level of trust for worthy causes is out of the scope of the original message and I'd also say this list. With all due respect I don't believe that this is the time or cause to inject the gTLD applicants "propaganda" to justify the need or implicit community approval for such a gTLD. Let's go back to the original subject. I'd not mind if somebody properly sets up an easy and legit way for individuals or members of the "networking community" a way to donate small quantities to help Raynold and his crew directly via things such as PayPal, but there is a ton of aid going to HT, perhaps somebody with access can influence the process to better direct the funds where they are needed. Regards Jorge
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
As a matter of form, how might one check out the legitimacy of requests like this? (No, I don't think this one is fake...)
Although folks on the ground are focused on doing good work, this is an area where the reputation and infrastructure of well-known organizations can be used to validate and coordinate fund raising. Unfortunately, with every disaster comes opportunites for fraud and con-men. Like Steve, I don't think this is fake, but is always a good opportunity to educate people who want to help. One possible starting point is the Internet Society http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=1536 We especially wish to draw attention to the immediate response of organizations such as Inveneo, NetHope, the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), Packet Clearing House (PCH), LACNIC, the IEEE, and many others, all mobilizing for much-needed, practical, on-the-ground assistance. ISOC provides links to those organizations, but you should get the links directly from ISOC or the organization not my mail message. For those in the United States, another well-known starting point is the WhiteHouse.GOV website http://www.whitehouse.gov/haitiearthquake_embed Again, those are just pointers. You should still verify people claiming to represent those organizations, and contact them using some out-of-band method. Phishers often email, postal mail, phone calls and even in person contacts pretend to be well-known, well-trusted entities. Suggestions from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation about scams and how to report them in the US. http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel10/earthquake011310.htm -- Personal opinion, not representing any organization
Sean Donelan wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
As a matter of form, how might one check out the legitimacy of requests like this? (No, I don't think this one is fake...)
Although folks on the ground are focused on doing good work, this is an area where the reputation and infrastructure of well-known organizations can be used to validate and coordinate fund raising.
Another good reason is so that the funds are tax-deductible. People are willing to give more when they know they can get a tax break and most corporations won't give anything unless it's a tax-deductible donation. There are special rules for personal donations for Haiti this year - if you donate by the end of February 2010 you can take the deduction off of your 2009 tax return. This means you realize the tax benefit more-or-less right away, rather than having to wait a year to see the tax benefit realized with a bigger refund (or smaller amount owed) when you file your taxes in 2011. jc
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