LOST CHILDREN: There is an app for that!
Some good news for a change.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/children-lost-in-war-zones-and-disasters-find-their-families-with-an-app/?WT.mc_id=TE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M319-ROS-0813-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_c=222266
Children Lost in War Zones and Disasters Find Their Families With an App
But for Jorge Just, a student in a class called “Design for Unicef,” at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, it was exactly the kind of problem he wanted to tackle — and one in which he thought a little technology could make a real difference for people suffering under tremendous emotional distress.
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“A child might be on one side of a refugee camp, and their parents might be on the other side, but for all intents and purposes, they might as well be on different continents,” he said. “Even small distances in those situations can feel insurmountable.”
So he started working on a way to help. After three years of development, his Rapid Family Tracing and Reunification app, or RapidFTR, is now connecting lost children with their families much more quickly than ever before.
According to UNICEF, RapidFTR’s ability to photograph, record and share information about lost children has reduced the time it takes to reunite families from over six weeks to just hours.
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