Pakistan floods bring out TED Fellows community (via TED Blog)

This TED blog post flags the crisis information wiki on the Pakistan flooding I created and curate for the ICT4Peace Foundation.

Upwards of 20 million people are suffering from the massive flooding in Pakistan, according to the United Nations — more than the number affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Following record-breaking monsoon rains, at least 1,600 people have been killed, an estimated 72,400 homes have been destroyed, and crops from some 1.6 million acres of land have been ruined. The inte … Read More

via TED Blog

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