First, on the technical side, to address your point 2, I offer the possible suggestion of having a site that is kind of an aggregator of all the information:

For things like Tweets, FB posts that are public, Flickr, etc. it would have to use technology similar to that used by “sentiment analysis” systems to recognize (and filter) what was relevant.

RSS feeds could, of course, be ingested via some automated mechanism.

For other things, possibly we could encourage people to use RDFa or some kind of other semantic markup to identify relevance. But then the site would have to proactively crawl the Web to identify that markup. Thus, this would take some serious IT power, and would probably have to be provided as a cloud service by Google or the like (although someone could probably build it to run on Amazon Web Services or Google App Engine).

Then, on the ComDev side, in regard to point 3, I think that this important to raise. People need to recognize technology is a means, not an end. It shouldn’t be promoted at the expense of what is actually important – i.e., saving lives.

This means people who do the tech side of things will largely be unsung heroes, and to call attention to themselves will generally be counterproductive. But as Christians, we should be familiar with what it means to do good works in secret.

Thanks again, David, for sharing these thoughts. I know that you have a lot of experience and effort backing them up, and I look forward to seeing what you will do in the future.