by Peter Linebaugh (Haiti Liberte)
DroneAdventures.org is a Swiss
“non-profit” organization that in April 2013 sent two representatives to Haiti
to work with a couple “non-profits” called Open Street Map and International
Organization for Migration. For six days with three drones and several lap-top
computers these “drone adventurers” mapped 1) shanty towns in Port au Prince to
count the number of tents as a first step in making a census and organizing
“infrastructure,” 2) river beds to simulate water flow for future flood
control, and 3) the University of Limonade “to help promote the school for the
next generation of youth in Haiti.”
These
drone promoters also made a cheerful video with
a happy sound track, pretty pictures of the blue sky, and scores of children
running after these pied pipers launching their falcon-like drones as if the
children too could fly as easily out of the man-made disasters of life.
