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Vinicio Mata, member of the first team of Firefighters for Christ to arrive at Port-au-Prince, shares his experience and the role of social media in supporting their actions.

Neerja Raman, senior research fellow, explores the role of social entrepreneurship in rebuilding efforts beyond immediate crisis response at Relief 2.0 in Haiti @ Stanford.

Robert Munro explains the implementation of Mission4636, a free text messaging through mobile phones (SMS) field reporting solution connected to the web and the role of FrontlineSMS, USHAHIDI, CrowdFlower,  SamaSource and a vast network of volunteers to make it happen.

Stephanie Seale, Inveneo's Senior Manager, Program Development, presents their social enterprise model to connect those who need it most at Relief 2.0 in Haiti @ Stanford.

Margarita Quihuis, Fellow at Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, presents the EPIC initiative at the Social Entrepreneurship panel of Relief 2.0 in Haiti @ Stanford.

EPIC (Earth-Wide Peace, Innovation and Collaboration) is a global incubator network with multi-million dollar awards to nurture ventures, create new markets, and employ people to work on the world's most epic problems.

Jessica Colaço, TED Global Fellow 2009 and mobile entrepreneurship evangelists shares her view on the potential of mobile technology to promote human development and local growth opportunity through innovation in developing economies.

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Noel Dickover, Co-Founder of Crisis Commons, shares the experience of CrisisCamps and the work of volunteers on technology projects in relief and recovery at Relief 2.0 in Haiti @ Stanford.

Haitians helping Haitians. David Pierre-Louis journey back to Haiti from Seattle, in search for his mother in Port-au-Prince, and his reconnection with the people and non-stop efforts to enable recovery, reconstruction and change through the creation of the Strength through Unity initiative. Presented at Relief 2.0 in Haiti @ Stanford.

Our Relief 2.0 approach focuses in engaging local stakeholders as key to the long term success of relief initiatives. Massive relief efforts fail to acknowledge local capacity and often obliterate what is left of local infrastructure and resources by displacing them with foreign aid which faces plenty of challenges when dealing with local issues.

A more effective, long-term effective impact is achieved...

Andris Bjornson, engineer from Inveneo, shares their experience setting up a long distance wi-fi network to connect relief organizations in the field at Port-au-Prince.