Haiti in pictures

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  Wi-Fi aid for Haiti

• The world flocks to the Web after Chile earthquake

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 28 February, 2010 12:05

  After Chile's massive earthquake and potential Pacific Rim tsunami damage, relief organizations, government agencies, corporations and throngs of people are on Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other services to seek and provide information and help.

• Wi-Fi aid for Haiti

  By IDG Online Staff | 24 February, 2010 12:41

  Inveneo Project Director Andris Bjornson, on the roof of the Haitian headquarters of CHF International, installs the base antenna for a series of Wi-Fi links to aid groups across Port-au-Prince. CHF shared its satellite link with other aid organizations via a Wi-Fi network built by Inveneo.

• Text donations for Haiti relief spur nonprofits to follow suit

  By Matt Hamblen | 23 February, 2010 09:28

  Nonprofit groups desperate to raise donations during the economic downturn are considering text-to-donate campaigns similar to the wildly successful American Red Cross texting effort for Haiti earthquake relief.

• Mobile Facebook updates lead to Haiti rescues

  By Nancy Gohring | 23 February, 2010 06:05

  It was the day after the earthquake in Haiti and Stéphane Bruno, a Haitian IT consultant, by chance noticed an SOS message appear on the Facebook widget on his Android phone.

• Cyber criminals exploit Haiti tragedy with malicious attacks

  By Veronica C. Silva | 20 February, 2010 08:00

  There was no let up in spamming and phishing activities last month even as the entire world watched with sympathy the tragedy in Haiti. To add to the sorrow behind the devastating earthquake on 12 January, cyber criminals took advantage of the tragedy to launch spamming and phishing attacks.

• Haiti Wi-Fi network links relief centers

  By Stephen Lawson | 17 February, 2010 07:10

  The exploratory trip last month by San Francisco-based nonprofit Inveneo might have been fairly routine -- or at least as routine as things can be for a group that brings information technology to poor countries all over the world. Members of its team would go to yet another country and meet with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) there to talk about their connectivity needs and discuss ways they could work together to aid the local population. Inveneo, founded about five years ago, had done similar work with partners in 23 countries, including Rwanda, Uganda, Afghanistan and Nepal.

• Haiti digs out from communications disaster

  By Stephen Lawson | 27 January, 2010 09:43

  Carriers and aid workers are scrambling to rebuild communications in Haiti following the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake near the capital city of Port-au-Prince, which left many residents with no means of communicating inside or outside the country.

• Facebook users booted for hitting message limit

  By Sharon Gaudin | 16 January, 2010 07:59

  Some Facebook users sending messages about the Haitian earthquake may have been a bit dismayed at times this week to find that they'd been booted off the site for suspicion of spamming.

• Setting up a wireless LAN in post-earthquake Haiti

  By Duane Compton | 24 March, 2010 05:06

  On March 5, I stepped off a plane at Port-au-Prince airport and was confronted by two things: oppressive heat and chaos. Down the stairs and onto the tarmac we went. It looked like a war zone. But it was actually the aftermath of the tremendous earthquake in Haiti.

• NGO networks in Haiti cause problems for local ISPs

  By Nancy Gohring | 23 February, 2010 05:50

  While the communications networks that aid groups set up quickly following the earthquake in Haiti were surely critical to rescue efforts, the new networks have had some negative effects on the local ISP community.