Disaster Recovery White Papers
Dial 711 for 'Open' Emergency Communications
Overview Tranquility and routine were abruptly shattered on January 17 in the Japanese port city of Kobe, when an earthquake struck at dawn, killing more than five thousand people and leaving many more homeless. The dazed survivors, together with their families and public safety agencies, immediately faced an information problem. What was going on? How could help be organized? What was the fate of their loved ones? A few months later, we are able to assess how helpful modern communications and information technology was in producing answers to these questions. The experience of Kobe, as well as those of the less severe quakes of Los Angeles and San Francisco, are important for a world that is always at the edge of natural or manmade disaster.
| Publisher | Virtual Institute of Information | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 5 |
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