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Helping people stay informed and connected in Japan and Ecuador

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Helping people stay informed and connected in Japan and Ecuador ABOUT ZENFONE - Helping people stay informed and connected in Japan and Ecuador, Over the last few days, Japan and Ecuador have been affected by significant earthquakes. Hundreds have been killed, and many thousands injured or displaced. We�re doing a few things to try to help. Find and call loved ones To help people post and search for family or friends affected by the disaster we activated Person Finder in Spanish and Japanese. We�re also offering free calls via Hangouts, Hangouts Dialer or Google Voice to and within Ecuador to help people communicate with loved ones. Learn more on the ground For people in and around the affected areas, we have Google Now cards with critical crisis-related information like missing person resources, safety zones, and aftershock safety tips. We�ve made the same information available on search for earthquake-related searches. In Japan, we launched a landing page and crisis map showing acces...

Helping for the long term in Flint Michigan

Helping for the long term in Flint Michigan ABOUT ZEENFONE - Helping for the long term in Flint, Michigan, Access to clean drinking water is a concern all over the world, but in the United States it�s often a foregone conclusion. That is not the case recently for the residents of Flint, Michigan, many of whom we now know have been exposed to lead in their tap water. It�s a crisis, one to which the American people readily responded by donating water and resources to help alleviate the immediate pain. But the problem won�t go away quickly, and understanding its extent is both challenging and an absolute necessity. Today, Google.org is providing $250,000 to partners in the Flint community to help, with a special focus on a technical solution for understanding and resolving the crisis for the long term. First, we�re making a $150,000 grant to the University of Michigan-Flint to enable the University of Michigan-Flint to develop a comprehensive data platform that will assist government and...