Krikkrak is a call-and-response tradition in the Haitian culture at the onset of a story. The storyteller calls "Krik?", the audience responds with "Krak!" then the story begins.

On Jan 12 2010, a loud "Krik?" emanated from buildings cracking above a magnitude 7 earthquake. Another "Krik?" carried the pleas of a gutted nation.

As the world responds to this disaster, we pause to think about applicable roles of energy and communication technologies in the long nation re-building efforts to come. What began as an IAP workshop at the Media Lab focusing on the January 12th crisis in Haiti will continue as a lecture series, a string of projects and continued discussions on the history, re-construction and nation-building of Haiti.

Dale Joachim, Media Laboratory, MIT

email: joachimd (at) mit (dot) edu

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