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Mobile Donations US: individuals can text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross for  Haiti efforts. You can donate $10 up to three times, and 100% of the  donations will reach the Red Cross Foundation. This effort is run by Mobile Accord. US: Individuals can also text YELE to 501501 to donate $5 to the Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation. [Update] 501501 is run by the Mobile Giving Foundation. In their terms, the foundation says "there may be some designated organizations that have permitted the MGF to grant 5-10% of each donation to the MGF to cover administrative costs associated with the MGF’s mission." We were unable to contact Yele or Mobile Giving to check the specifics of their partnership). [Earlier we had said 501501 was run by 501media. This is not true in the US, 501501 in Canada, however, is run by 501 Media]. Germany: text HAITI to 81190 to donate $5 (out of which $4.83 will go to Aktion Deutschland Hilft).   Denmark: text Katastrofe to 1231 to donate 150 kr, or call 90 56 56 56.   More organizations that are workin in Haiti in relief efforts are listed on  The NYTimes Lede Blog and more on  MSNBC's How to Help page. [Update] US: You can now text the word "Haiti" to 85944 to donate $5 to the Rescue Union Mission and MedCorp International, and the word "Haiti" to 25383 to donate $5 to the Internal Rescue Committee. These shortcodes also courtesy of the Mobile Giving Foundation. [Update] Canda: You can text the word "Haiti" to 45678 to donate $5 to the Salvation Army, again courtesy of the Mobile Giving Foundation.

A decalogue like a work in progress, to promote the idea and the principles of a new Public Administration more able to act and operate in the era of the Nets. This is the “Manifesto Amministrare 2.0”

The Venetian event permitted to collect a lot of ideas and suggestions useful to the writing of the document. First of all, anyway, it was very important to understand that many italian Administrations, and inside them politicians, managers and civil servants, are strongly convinced that the Public Administration need to embrace, at least partially, that “web 2.0 philosophy” who is changing the web and, more important, the life of organizations, enterprises and millions of people

The role of politics Politicians must be able to take responsibility of their choices. The organizational dimension Public Administrations must change their organization and their procedures, pursuing a new idea of relationship with citizens and abandoning the self-approach. The Net as a right The access to the Net, specially to broadband, must be easy and cheap everywhere. Beyond the cultural divide Citizens must be helped to develop a new digital culture. The involvement of citizens There’s no Public Administration 2.0 without a strong intervention in favour of participation. The multi-channel approach as opportunity Service are really tailored if there’s attention to the channels more appropriate for the different users’ target. Disintermediation to better act To promote a Public Administration no more “one way” and finally “2.0” is important to foster a bigger disintermediation between institutions and citizens. Re-start form the semantics of public contents The semantics presentation of public information, services and contents must be conceived with the final users and open to folksonomies. Software as enabling factor Software used in public sector must be open and re-usable by other administrations. Foster the development of active communities User groups and social networks must be considered as a fundamental stimulus to design public web services, starting from their desires and indications.