Award for Humanitarian Excellence from Cinema for Peace

Cinema for Peace Foundation presents the first ever Award for Humanitarian Excellence to Trilogy International Partners, Sean Penn, Cheryl Mills and Arcade Fire for the response to the devastating Haiti earthquake in 2010 and raises a total of $5 million for J/P HRO through a combination of donations,...

Good news from Haiti: first success story for the mobile wallet in the Caribbean

MOVILION: Success and Haiti are two words that rarely go together. Haiti is not only the poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean, but it has been beaten by recent earthquakes and hurricanes that unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe. Mobile penetration is the lowest in the region, between...

Two years on: Haiti's tech legacy

TECHRADAR.COM: Today is the second anniversary of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which devastated Haiti, killing up to 316,000 people and making millions more homeless. Because the epicentre of the quake was just 16 miles outside the densely populated capital Port-au-Prince, damage to buildings and...