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However, Mikael Schinazi ‘12, who went to Haiti before the earthquake in December 2009 with a Boston-based NGO, presented an alternative viewpoint...
...Schinazi said that the real problem at Haiti is the lack of infrastructure instead of the lack of geographic data...
...don’t really see why we would need such a Web site if you were in Haiti,” Schinazi said, based on his own experience...
According to Schinazi, there was only one route at the place he worked so that a street map was not necessary. In addition, their Haitian driver knew the place very well and stayed with them all the time, and he could always ask local people for direction along the road...
Moreover, Schinazi said that he learnt from a United Nations worker that the UN headquarters supported the ground effort by giving the UN workers data from satellites...