Project, Research, House-Elf @tattlemade | Non-resident research fellow @CarnegieIndia | tech, policy, global development
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Tarunima Prabhakar retweeted
Trolls & their latest modus operandi: a new vocabulary of banal words & symbols that are actually covert equivalents of offensive slurs. To counter this, @cis_india & @tattlemade have built a plugin that can detect such posts. Something that social media giants should have done.
Tarunima Prabhakar retweeted
Global friends; you can help India remotely 🌍.
Please donate to one of these causes. Most accept foreign cards (and if not message me and I'll give you my PayPal and do it for you)
+ Twitter - pls tag more
1/n @Hemkunt_Fdn
Delivering oxygen
hemkuntfoundation.com/donate…
Tarunima Prabhakar retweeted
🚨2nd drive of #OxygenCylinders in #Gurgaon
3:30pm today at our head office (location on G maps)- this time with even more quantity
Preference will be given to patients with O2 level less than 88
Pls spread the word 🙏🏼
#OxygenShortage #COVID19India #CovidIndiaInfo
Folks in Gurgaon-
@CoweNetwork
is connecting donors to those in need. They do it free of cost. They helped us find a donor. Fill out this form with your request, or to register as a donor.
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Tarunima Prabhakar retweeted
If you are an organization helping manage the current health crisis using WhatsApp, we would like to contribute in a small way by giving you access to a powerful shared team inbox for WhatsApp and make coordination essy for you. DMs are open.
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Tarunima Prabhakar retweeted
🚨 Largest #OxygenCylinder(s) drive will happen at our head office in #Gurgaon (location available on maps) at 7:15pm. Priority will be given to patients who’s O2 levels are less than 80- pls get required documents too!
Pls spread the message
#COVID19India #CovidIndiaInfo
An oximeter costs Rs 1500. If you don't have an Oximeter yet, figure out who'd be available to give it to you on an urgent basis, if needed. But if you have the resources, please buy one.
List of individuals delivering food/groceries/meds in Delhi-Gurgaon. With the reminder that if you know someone who needs assistance, calling some of these numbers yourself first, in addition to sharing the contact details, could be very helpful:
Desperate times call for desperate measures- I'll be on Twitter for the next few weeks helping close Covid information gaps the best I can. My parents tested +ve in December and father needed plasma. Some suggestions from our experience (tailored to these more dire months):
3. The pedagogical tone should not imply that we got it all right. I am generally not one to operate with an 'over-abundance of caution'. But some other family members are. In this particular situation that caution was needed and saved us precious time.
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