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Impact Signals #127: Monday.com's Foundation Runs Quake-Zone Coordination, ETH Zurich Speeds Disaster Forecasting With NASA Data, Canada Bets $13M on National AI Literacy A workplace-productivity company's philanthropic arm, not a dedicated disaster-tech vendor, has spent two years running field data coordination for earthquake response in Venezuela and Colombia, using Monday.com's own work-management platform to cut the days-long lag between scattered relief reports and a usable operating picture. In Switzerland, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre have spent about a year moving 100 petabytes of NASA Earth-observation data next to the Alps supercomputer, aiming to cut disaster-forecast generation down to about a minute instead of running case by case. Canada's government put CAD $13 million behind a free national AI-literacy program reaching up to a million students and 50,000 teachers, while Seattle's city council is now demanding oversight of an AI 911-triage system that ran undisclosed for two years. Today's throughline: AI infrastructure for disaster response is maturing fast, from field coordination to forecasting to the public accountability that comes once these systems are found to already be touching people's lives. --- Top Stories **1. Monday.com's Philanthropic Foundation Became the Field Coordination Layer for the Venezuela and Colombia Earthquakes** Monday.com, the Israeli work-management software company, runs a philanthropic Emergency Resp…