The Sumatra Trench Tsunami: Politics, Technologies and Opportunities
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Paper written for Microsoft UK
Date: 05/01/2010
Preface
We are in a good position …… to take an international lead in the establishment of a global disaster warning and relief system, as the trigger for a two-way citizenship communications network, which combines the traditional strength of the public sector with the emerging importance of the private sector and civil society, harnessing our basic technologies and using these to drive collaboration and innovation between the IT, broadcasting and telecommunications systems to produce a seamless, cross platform data flow. In the first instance this will provide warnings which can save lives and property and co-ordinate relief to minimise the impact of disasters but in the longer run the value of the system will be in the build up of social and community capital based on trust which will allow poor communities better to withstand the vagaries not only of their natural but also their political and social ecologies.
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