TRACKING KATRINA'S SURVIVORS

A listfriend sends us this information:

"A friend who's helping put me onto this:
http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolunteer

"I haven't looked at it much yet, but evidently
they're culling "I'm looking for so and so" and
"I'm still alive" notices from all over, and
putting them into a database so folks can find
loved ones.

"They need folks to help with data entry. Info is
on that page.

"Wiki is the project where folks work together to
produce open-source reference material--Wikipedia, etc.

"blessings,
Janelle"

I don't know what else is being done to help survivors find each other, or to account for the dead and missing, but we clearly have the technology to do a decent job of it. For starters, is anybody using the US Census Bureau database for the New Orleans area, to check off the people who ought to be there? Now that food, water, shelter, sanitation, and medical care are more or less under control, information should be the next priority.