Thursday, August 13, 2009

Digital Itinerant Services Network

The following article relates Google's efforts to assist the homeless in San Francisco.
http://www.switched.com/2008/02/29/google-gives-free-phone-numbers-and-voicemail-to-homeless/

To make inroads with Google will open up an exchange of ideas and perhaps a layer of Google services directed at this population. Imagine an Itinerant Services Network, to which all camps are connected and is easily accessible through mobile devices, that provides up-to-the-minute information on nearby available services, including tent community vacancies.

Moreover, this service can provide information to the non-homeless about what needs must be met, and how one can help in a simple way. Let us fill the buckets with a million drops, by unleashing a flow of information through digital-age pipes.

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