Micro Text Interchange (OpenSolaceHaiti)

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Reach out to haitian voices, haitian stories, ushihidi, swift river, on our end.

The radio stations on their end

[edit] Rationale

Our bandwidth limitations are even more limited than we originally estimated, and its going to be a few weeks before our video postcard exchange network launches.

So, we are proposing a parallel effort to get messages down into Haiti.

If we connect with our allies working w/ broadcast and low power FM radio (or blackboards, or high power copy machines)on the ground, maybe we can pass them tweets of support that they can read over the air.

[edit] Protocol

We will harvest messages from Twitter. We should consider spreading the word that all tweets tagged '#opensolacehaiti' will be reviewed, and the most appropriate messages will be selected for rebroadcast, on the ground, in haiti.

We need to contact the ushahid/swiftapp team to learn more about esttin

We plant I have modeled a few messages here. Some can be prayers, some can be well wishes

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23opensolacehaiti

I want to prioritize messages from the hatian diaspora, but an outpouring of a groundswell of support will make everyone feel better.

What do you think?

What shall we call this twitter-radion bridge? The 'micro message interchange'?

Also, I am not sure where/how the return flow will be structured.

Maybe the #opensourcehaiti tag captures both incoming and outgoing messages, and we need two more tags for #tohaiti and #fromhaiti? Of course, the more tags, the shorter the messages. #to #from? #t #f (nah, that looks like true/false). Forget the distinction?

BTW - we have a twitter account now - please contact me off list if you would like the password.

keep up the great work.