Things I want to post here, and things I don't know

If the focus is on Haiti for now, there's a lot of information that could be brought together here and maintained for the research community and for interested citizens. With this in mind, I invite folks to comment on posts here or to send ideas to me at tom.birkland@gmail.com. Some of the things I'd like to see are:

• Reports from charities/NGOs about their activities in Haiti, and information about the most effective ways to give resources to aid agencies.
• Background information on Haiti, including social, cultural, economic, and other data. 
• Background information on the nature of health care and public health in Haiti, both before and after the earthquake
• Background on the organization of Haitian politics in the years before the earthquake, and how that system performed in past disasters (hurricanes) and how it is recovering--if at all--from this disaster
• Information on Haiti's infrastructure--ports, water, sewer, power, telecom, hospitals, transport, airports, and so on. 
• Scholarly literature on disasters broadly that would be relevant to this disaster
• Scholarly literature and good popular literature that would help explain disasters in general, and this disaster in particular, to a lay audience, including decison makers and journalists that need background on disasters to do their jobs effectively.

These ideas are in no particular order--they're just things I'd like to know more about, and I suspect others will too. I will be collecting this sort of material in the months to come, and will share it here, or, if the volume is great enough, on a linked website.