Spanish company deploys Micro-Modular Data Center to Caracol, Haiti

BARCELONA, Spain (defend.ht) - AST Modular has deployed one of its micro-modular data centers to Haiti where it will be housed at the Caracol Industrial Park. This small unit is suppose to mimic the capabilities of a typical regional data center, but without the longterm sustainability.

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Zili Dlo to receive 2013 Energy Globe Award

NEW YORK, USA (defend.ht) - Marguerite "Ezili Danto" Laurent for her Zili Dlo project in Haiti will receive an Energy Globe Award, the world's renowned honor for sustainable projects.

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Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime Joins the Undead in Wii U Demo

LOS ANGELES, USA (defend.ht) - Nintendo President and Chief Operating Officer, Reggie Fils-Aime, had his face 'zombified' as he introduced the first violent game in decades by Nintendo called ZombiU, to be released with the new Wii U this upcoming holiday season.

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New iPhone Application called 'Proud Haitian' Released

WEST PALM BEACH, USA (defend.ht) - Haitian-American IT and Marketing Specialist, Yanatha Desouvre, has developed a new iPhone application called Proud Haitian.

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Haitian Band CaRiMi Releases First Mobile Kompa App

New-York, USA (defend.ht) – The popular band CaRiMi has become the first in the Haitian Music Industry to release an official mobile app. On iPhone and Android devices CaRiMi hopes to promote the work and stay in touch with fans all over the world.

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New #572 Hotline for Victims of Sexual Assault in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - In one year since the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment, Digital Democracy (Dd) has trained 150 women and built a database documenting over 400 cases of rape in Haiti.

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Solar-Powered Street Lights for Cité Soleil

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Project "Light and Safety", brought by Haiti's only designer and manufacturer of solar panels and appliances, Enersa and the Brazilian Embassy have begun to install 208 solar street lights for 26 blocks at 8 street lights per block in the neighborhood of Cité Soleil.

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PlayStation 4 'Eco-Concept' by Haitian Designer

To bring about anticipation among users, Yanko Design's Joseph Dumary has showcased yet another conceptual design and this time it’s for the far-fetched PlayStation 4. The console is presumed to sport a stylish design while 60% of the material is recyclable.

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Venezuela Submarine Cable to Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, D.R. to Begin Operations in First Phase

CARACAS, Venezuela - The submarine fiber optic cable known as ALBA-1, which began construction in July 2010 will go into operation next month in its first phases connecting Venezuela to Jamaica and Cuba.

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Haitian Journalists Begin Social Media and Multimedia Training

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A group of journalists from various media agencies in Port-au-Prince will take part in a first session of training in the professional use of the web and multimedia, initiated on May 31.

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FOKAL Introduces First Cybercafé for Kids

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The Fondasyon Konesans ak Libète (FOKAL) launched its first day of training, initiated the first internet café for children from 7 to 15 years.

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Google Launches Cloud Services for Haitian Agricultural Industry

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The Haitian Minister of Agriculture and the Natural Resources for Rural Development (MARDNR), on Tuesday launched new services that will incorporate, Cloud Computing, technology, information and communication in the agriculture industry.

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CONATEL Director Talks 4G and Favorable Telecommunications Outlook

PETION-VILLE, Haiti - Haiti is well positioned in the telecommunications market, stated Engineer and Director of the National Council of Telecommunications, Jean Jaunasse Elysee, said on Tuesday.

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On May 18, Android Does Haitian Humor

On May 18, users of the Android mobile platform will, for the first time, have access to raw and uncut Haitian culture, through a mobile application that provides Haitian humor, proverbs, sayings, idioms and even cultural profanity.

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Haiti Leads Caribbean in Growth of Internet Users

A report released by Exito Exportador noted that Haiti led the Caribbean community in percentage of growth of internet users in the past 10 years.

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Election Data Suggests MINUSTAH to Blame for Irregularities

On election day, at the Jeane Ayiti Centre de Projets in downtown PetionVille, 12 people sit around the table with their laptops and smartphones.

They were updating the Mwen Konte voting map, a Google Map of Haiti generated from a database of SMS text message reports of irregularities and fraud in the voting process.

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Twin Satellites Aim to Predict Earthquakes

Earthquake prediction isn't the best business to get into when talking about predicting natural disasters. Predictions can be done, but, as Clay Dillow from PopSci says it's "usually with just enough lead time to yell “earthquake!” before the shaking begins."

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Tech Engineers Turn Haiti Rubble into Resource

 

A group of Georgia Tech engineers have figured out how to do what many thought was impossible -- turn debris from Haiti's massive earthquake into a viable resource.

It's a scene hard for many watching around the world to imagine - a devastating earthquake rocked Haiti to its core.

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Revolutions and Social Media

Online media have come to play a huge role in politics. We saw this in Iran, where Twitter played an important role in post-election protests and to a lesser extent in Haiti, where news about the earthquake was mapped through webtools like www.ushahidi.com.Wikileaks caused it’s own revolution in the democratization of news.

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