UNDER CONSTRUCTION A portal providing links to the major Canadian aid organizations, NGOs and government agencies serving the January 2010 emergency in Haiti.

www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0501/aid_agencies_prefer_professionals_to_volunteers.shtml

portals (non-Canadian)

 www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/ Google has a mini list of U.S. based aid agencies

 www.haitihelpmed.org/ based in Florida

 www.networkforgood.org American portal

www.justgive.org American portal

 www.oneworld.net/

Work began on the site less than 5 days after the earthquake hit Haiti Jan 12th. By Day 7 we had secured donations in kind for the domain name registration and hosting.

Jan 17 - began Sunday, Jan 17th by Prof. Tim Richardson,  based on an email by student Julian I. in MRK619 at Seneca College, Markham Campus
- Richardson created a mini page and FTP'd up to the web, temporarily, at http://www.witiger.com/haiti/
Jan 18 - discussed in class (MTK619 Section MS) Jan 18th, brainstormed domain names, students researched existence  of current Canadian Aid portals
Jan 18 - received email from the office of the president of Canadian domain name registrar www.internic.ca saying they would donate the cost of buying the domain names and administer the domain name ownership for the students
Jan 18 - received an email from Seneca College President David Agnew expressing support for the project
Jan 19 - received email from president of a major Canadian ISP - Internet Service Provider agreeing to host the webpages for the site for free
 

January 20th Seneca College President David Agnew and Prof. Tim Richardson discussing the donations portal with student Julian Irani . Julian was the student who originally proposed doing his e-commerce project on aid websites, until the rest of the class joined in and we took it on as a class project. Mr. Agnew previously served as the CEO of UNICEF Canada and has been very supportive of the students' ideas to build this portal.

Jan 22nd - combined classes of MRK619 Section MS and Section MT met to decide on the domain name and begin discussions on dividing up what tasks needed to be done

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Jan 25th - discussed in class the different Teams and who will do what
Jan 25th -  The social media group (Alex Lumsden, Jacqueline H F, Claudia Carvajal and Natasha August) creatied a twitter group http://twitter.com/donationsportal
jan 25th - the Charity Contact Team has formed into their team and delegated specific Charities for specific members to be responsible for
 
 

Beaver pic came from the webpage of Dr. Christopher Olivola, a post-doctoral researcher in the Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences Department, at University College London