Here are a few of the efforts.

• A Web site called Haitian Earthquake Registry allows people to register and look for missing friends and relatives. (Similar “human search engine” efforts developed after the 2008 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province.)
• Companies including Intel (INTC), Cisco (CSCO) and Microsoft (MSFT) help support NetHope, an organization that works with 17 different relief groups to do things like set up the basic communications between agencies, and help coordinate reports and contact lists.

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“There are more Internet users in China than there are people in the U.S.,” Barrett notes, “And more cellphone users in South Africa than in the U.S.” But it won’t matter, he says, if the world doesn’t address inequities, starting with education. “If someone asked me what’s the most important technology you could put in the classroom, I would say, a really good teacher,” says Barrett. He brings onstage executives from NetHope, which is coordinating IT for developing countries, including Kenya, and Save the Children, which is working on getting Intel Classmate PCs into classrooms in Bangladesh.

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