Specific Issue: Disaster relief & crisis management

Disaster relief & crisis management

Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are developing creative solutions to strengthen disaster relief and crisis management worldwide:

Call it hope in a briefcase.

In the event of a major natural or man-made disaster, a region's or even an entire country's communications system can be knocked out. For first-response relief workers this means no ability to coordinate the crucial early efforts to save lives. But these days, the first wave of relief workers arrive with a 4lb briefcase that sets up in twenty minutes to become a fully operative, solar powered, internet-based command center, ready to transmit voice, data and pictures to the rest of the field team and the rest of the world.

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Tweetcarly entered LEADER - a language course, media and communication center in this competition. - 16 days ago

Tweetcarly entered a nomination for LEADER (Learn English And Develop Empowered Region)-a language, media and communication center. - 23 days ago

ayedee entered SPEED by DOH HEMS in this competition. - 29 days ago

bbellizzi@world... entered Innovative Community Response to Disaster in this competition. - 38 days ago

DonnaC submitted the Building Resilient Communities of Small, Sustainable Enterprises innovation. - 49 days ago

eniware entered Eniware portable sterilizer in this competition. - 50 days ago

Ashoka Sri Lanka entered a nomination for New concepts on clinical management of Dengue. - 54 days ago
AgnesLesage started the Lesotho ICT4D Changemakers group. - 55 days ago

brecken entered HandReach: Healing Kids from Trauma Injuries in this competition. - 60 days ago

wmurauni@yahoo.com entered One world for ideal health care development strategy. in this competition. - 65 days ago