Nearly two months ago today, Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake, and the tech community went into overdrive to try and make the relief effort smarter and more responsive. Looking back, what are the most important lessons we can begin to draw, and how should we think about how our systems can evolve to meet future disasters?

Lesson #1 - Information is king: The tech response to Haiti was all about information. It was about finding better ways to collect information from people actually on the ground, process that information and visualize and distribute it to people who needed it. This focus on data is representative of a larger, more general emphasis today on the fact that more data and better aggregation means similarly better ways to make decisions.

Lesson #2 - No one has the whole answer: One of the most heartening aspects of the tech response was the way different actors quickly figured out their specific roles and linked up to make it happen.
[Published in NonProfitBlogs - Read the original article]