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OCHA - Japan: An Earthquake, a Tsunami – and a Handwritten Newspaper
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A rescue worker uses a two-way radio transceiver during heavy snowfall at a factory area devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, northern Japan, 16 March 2011. Credit: REUTERS/KIM KYUNG-HOON
unocha.org - March 15, 2013
When one of the most technologically sophisticated countries in the world is hit by a triple emergency, should we count on web platforms and social media to deliver lifesaving information? Not necessarily, according to a new report by Internews into the communications aspects of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.
. . . instead of their usual high-tech operation, local newspaper reporters went back a few decades in time and produced a handwritten newspaper.
Internews Report - Connecting the Last Mile: The Role of Communications in the Great East Japan Earthquake
http://www.internews.org/research-publications/connecting-last-mile-role-communications-great-east-japan-earthquake
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Mesh Networks
submitted by Michael D. McDonald
Mesh networks that rapidly reassemble the network from each cell phone and computer, not dependent upon the monopoly grids are the way to go. This is one of the advantages of distributed collectively intelligent grids. They are self-healing in terms of both energy production and communications.