The present era this digital system accelerate into the whole world but, as the same time what are the knowledge have in the same communities. I feel that, lack of mobilizations, knowledge of these systems, lack of availabilities in the local markets, knowledge of operating system on computer and etc.

Here with, I drop some suggestion on this, train the whole school teachers on “Early Warning, Risk Reduction, Emergency Preparedness and other skills”, providing equipments/devices to schools and public places (some systems are in Sri Lanka that, fixed public addressing [Loud Speaker] systems in the religious premises) this is use full in the remote areas. Rather many people are using dialog system but, how the illiterate people can understand SMS or other digital systems.
I appreciate that are, mobilize the communities, providing trainings to whole civil societies and authorities, campaign on awareness events among the communities, insist into the school syllabus (from primarily to Universities)

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Comment from Gisli Olaffson on this subject and articel–

“Here in Iceland the department of Civil Defense has written into their procedures for alerting people of a volcanic eruption the use of cell based alerting. They have practiced this in large scale evacuation drills where all mobile phones within a particular cell range get an SMS and all landline based phones get a recorded message. This has proven to be a much more effective way to alert than the old-style horns that used to sound alarm. I have to admit that hearing every mobile phone and every landline phone beep at the same time really is effective
We use the same system to alert our SAR volunteers, although they are a predefined set of people and the phone system basically sends the alert/message to the list of people (if I remember it does 25 SMS receipients at a time, since the teleco’s can process bulk messages of 25 people at a time). Alerting around 1000 people on a predefined list takes about 3 minutes.

Of course this kind of alerting mechanisms can only be built in close cooperation with the local teleco providers, making sure they provide access to bulk alerts, info on phones within a cell tower, etc.

That’s exactly what they do when they send to everything in the area…it is actually handled within the “mobile OS” located at the teleco. And our SAR teams SMS alerts get prioritized over normal SMS. I totally agree that establishing very good relationship before things happen is essential. You don’t want to work things out during an emergency A key thing to also have are contact numbers within the telecos that can be reached during emergencies to cut through red-tape when you need things that otherwise might take days to achieve.”

This paragraph was directly extracted from the Dialog website– (http://www.dialog.lk/en/corporate/cr/ourapproach/innovationinclusion/dewn.html).
: ” It can be used to issue customized alerts to selected recipients instantaneously, and is compliant with the internationally accepted alerting protocol – CAP.”.

There’s a big difference between “selected recipients” vs “every mobile phone”.

Sometime wonder if journals are simply for commercial hype and not for scientific facts?

The early warning system deployed by Dialog as part of their CSR program was truely for the Government of Sri Lanka; namely the Disaster Early Warning Network (DEWN). I have to agree that DEWN is capable of issuing SMS alerts to selected mobile phones to warn of Floods and other hazards. However, I have my doubts that Gov of Sri Lanka is actually using it.