• Technology: Lost and found Technology: Lost and found St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Friday, September He was found on a causeway near Interstate 10 after Hurricane Katrina rolled through New Or-leans. His name may be Neiamaya or Jeremia. Only his parents
• Technology: Lost and found
Technology: Lost and found
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Friday, September
He was found on a causeway near Interstate 10 after Hurricane Katrina rolled through New Or-leans. His name may be Neiamaya or Jeremia.
Only his parents know for sure, but they are missing. The plight of this child, thought to be about 2 years old, is shared by many other children separated from their loved ones following the destruction and death caused by the hurricane and its aftermath.
In the week after the storm, thousands of people are turning to the Internet, looking at satellite images of Katrina’s wake. Some are seeing damaged homes they can’t get to on foot. Others are posting photos of the missing on the Web, much as they did after 9/11, to help reunite families, a task rendered more complicated by the evacuation of thousands to other cities and states. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has produced a Web site of lost and found children and adults.
Although most of us turn to the Internet for fun and games, technology is showing its true humanitarian potential: giving hope to sad-eyed children like Neiamaya or Jeremia, who needs the family that is looking for him.
