If you are miles away and have little significant money to help the earthquake victims in Yogjakarta, here's something you can do. All you needs is some time and an internet connection.
Global Voices has reported that the World Wide Help Group has set up a wiki to help make sense of the often confusing information coming from aid agencies, NGOs and other sources at the quake site. Here's their report:
In response to the Java Quake of 27th May, 2006, the World Wide Help Group have set up the Java Quake Help Wiki and since it was set up, in the past 24 hours they are coordinating disaster relief operations with major aid agencies and relief teams on the ground. There’s also a team working with them in setting up sms relay communications into affected areas based on the previous relief efforts in the region.
The wiki has the basic design and structure in place but they URGENTLY NEED online volunteers to help out with the wiki in terms of the following tasks:
1. Move relevant content from TsunamiHelp & the South Asia QuakeHelp Blog)
2. Scrape info from the blogs covering the quake on tehnorati and post it under relevant sections on the wiki
3 Post translations from the HelpJogja blog to the wiki (via Andy Carvin’s link: toggletext.com)
4. Remove irrelevant info
5. Add static info on the main page
6) spread the word out about the wiki
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