In the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, I’d like to take a break from our regularly scheduled social media programming to discuss a nationwide activity that occurred over the weekend. I, along with several other tech savvy individuals in various cities across the US and in London, participated in the CrisisCommons project CrisisCamp, a technological call to action in an effort to aid Haiti. These impromptu sessions, organized only a couple of days beforehand, allowed participants to see how social media and open source development can aid as a direct response to Haitian citizens. As an attendee of CrisisCamp Brooklyn, organized by Ohad Folman of Freelancers Union, we started off by brainstorming several ideas only to hit a roadblock that many of us had not considered, having grown accustomed to living in the wired world – how do you reach out to people through technology when the area is without order or electricity?

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