Haiti Earthquake – How Google is Helping

In response to the Haitian earthquake, a team of Googlers worked with the U.S. Department of State to create an online People Finder gadget so that people can submit information about missing persons and to search the database.

The Gadget can be found on their Haiti earthquake response website as well as  the State Department website.

Google is also helping families  by offering free calls to Haiti for the next two weeks via Google Voice.

In order to help mission workers and anyone interested in viewing updated imagery in Google Earth, they’ve also included GeoEye’s shots from Wednesday in the Historical Imagery feature.

Google has also made the Haiti Map Maker data publicly available for download for non-commercial use and attribution.

Google’s YouTube property is also helping by offering continous news and user generated content.   Oxfam and the American Red Cross are even responding to donations by uploading videos that show viewers exactly where their contributions are making a difference.

My thoughts and prayers are with all the Hatian people and their friends and families around the world and well done Google for all your efforts in aiding the Hatian people in their time of need.