Monthly Archives: January, 2005
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Mobile Phones on Roaming Save Lives of Tourists in Sri Lanka
Saving Grace
Lanka Business Online
28 December 2004 15:22 hours
Thirty six stranded British tourists were rescued in Sri Lanka thanks to a mobile phone with one of them and technology that could pin-point the user, an official involved in the rescue told AFP….
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ICTs and Universities Conference
Sujata and I will be participating in a conference in Manila addressing how to get them to focus on ICTs. In light of the Indian Ocean tsunami, there will also be a session on disaster warning, where I will speak. Provisional program is attached.
Manila ICT4D and Universities Program
Asia Consultation
Tsunami Timeline
Attached is a color coded timeline of events related to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that seeks to answer the question “who knew what when?” This Presentation is available as:
Flash: Flash Presentation on Tsunami Warnings (Truncated).
Flash: Full Flash Presentation
Powerpoint:Tsunami Warnings and How We Can Listen
and HTML Tsunami Timeline
The basic timeline is below.
7:00 AM: [...]
A Phone Call saves an entire village in Pondicherry
The most remarkable perhaps is the story of Nallavadu, whose entire population of 3,600 was saved by a phone call. Nallavadu, along with the other three villages, is involved with the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation’s `Information Village Research Project,’ where the MSSRF’s informatics division conducts classes from rural knowledge centres.
One of the former volunteers of [...]
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