In the wake of the terrible earthquake in Nepal, lots of tech companies have been pitching in to help with the recovery efforts. Facebook, for example, released a new feature called safety check that lets those in the disaster area quickly let friends and family know they’re safe. Crowdfunding websites like Crowdrise have already raised hundreds of thousands in aid.
Google has also been doing quite a bit to help, according to its APAC blog. The company has made its person finder tool (embedded below) available in English, Nepali, Hindi, Chinese, and Japanese to help those affected find each other, and those who don’t have access to the web can also search via text or phone call. Additionally, it has lowered the cost of Google Voice calls into Nepal from US$0.19 to US$0.01 per minute to make contacting family easier.
(If the Person Finder embed above doesn’t work, click here to access it directly).
The company says it is also working to get satellite imagery to help with the rescue efforts, although cloud cover has made this difficult so far.
Finally, Google has shared a visualization of global searches including the words “Nepal” and “help” that poured out in the wake of the earthquake news. It will take Nepal years to recover from this devastating tragedy, but it’s at least nice to see that in the wake of such destruction, the whole world is trying to figure out how they can help:
(Source: Google APAC blog)
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