Tag Archive for ‘electronic equipment’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'electronic equipment'

LIRNEasia’s Mobile Benchmarks (South Asia and Southeast Asia) and Broadband Benchmarks Report for October 2008 has been released. Click HERE for more information.

“Green” tax to be imposed on mobiles?

Rohan Samarajiva

on October 30, 2007

The Lakbima newspaper (30 October 2007) reports that Central Environmental Authority Chairman and Jatika Hela Urumaya politician Udaya Gammanpila is advocating a “green tax” on mobile phones, tyres, electronic equipment and asbestos.

It appears that the JHU has a vendetta against the 6 million plus mobile users in Sri Lanka. They originated the idea of taxing mobiles to pay for government expenses (an amended law to this effect was enacted in September 2007); and now they want to impose another tax, this time in the name of the environment.

Why not on fixed phones? On computers? On cars?

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Tags: amended law, Central Environmental Authority, electronic equipment, mobile phones, Sri Lanka, Udaya Gammanpila.

Coverage for the Last Mile project

Rohan Samarajiva

on May 18, 2007

Serving Sri Lanka: Indian Ocean tsunami warning capabilities improving

Addressable satellite radio sets were found to be the best alerting technology of the community disaster warning pilot project conducted by LIRNEasia and Sarvodaya. Java enabled mobile phones which has a wake up siren came next. The GSM based remote alarm device developed locally by Dialog Telekom, MicroImage and University of Moratuwa followed closely. It has both light and siren.Findings of this project on learning how information-communication technologies and community based training can help in tsunami and other disaster situations had been discussed by community leaders and international experts at a workshop on “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning with a Focus on Community-Based Last-Mile Warning Systems” at the Sarvodaya Headquarters in Moratuwa recently. Difficulties had been experienced…

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Tags: CDMA, community-based last-mile warning systems, Dialog Telekom, electronic equipment, GSM, Indian Ocean, Information Communication Technologies, Institute for Construction Training and Development, Java, MicroImage, mobile phones, proto-type technology, remote alarm device, Rohan Samarajiva, Sarvodaya headquarters, satellite radio sets, telecom networks, University of Moratuwa, VSAT.

Significant progress made on making communities resilient to disasters

Nuwan Waidyanatha

on April 1, 2007

By Rohan Samarajiva

The findings of a pilot project on learning how information-communication technologies and community-based training can help in responding to disasters such as tsunamis were discussed by community leaders and international experts at a workshop on “SHARING KNOWLEDGE ON DISASTER WARNING, WITH A FOCUS ON COMMUNITY-BASED LAST–MILE WARNING SYSTEMS” held on March 28^th and 29^th, 2007 at the Sarvodaya headquarters in Moratuwa.

These finding ranged from the difficulties experienced in communicating disaster warnings to villages when mobile GSM and fixed CDMA telecom networks were not functional due to conflict conditions to the importance of not leaving newspapers on top of sensitive electronic equipment which can overheat and shut down as a result. In terms of the five communication technologies that were evaluated across multiple criteria, the addressable…

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Tags: addressable satellite radio sets, Canada, CDMA, communication technologies, Communication Technology Hardware, communications equipment, community warning device, determination trumping technology, Dialog Telekom, early warning systems, electronic equipment, five communication technologies, GSM, Indian Ocean, Information Communication Technologies, International Development Research Centre of Canada, Java, media professionals, MicroImage, MILE WARNING SYSTEMS, mobile phones, North America, Rohan Samarajiva, Sarvodaya headquarters, Sarvodaya, Sarvodaya Community Disaster Management Center, Sarvodaya Movement, software components, software industries, Sri Lanka, telecom networks, telecommunications, University of Moratuwa, VSAT.

Telecom sans Frontiers

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 6, 2005

From www.timesonline.com

Telecom charity forges links for tsunami victims
by Elizabeth Judge

Vodafone and its industry peers are backing a new kind of aid for
striken areas

AS EARLY images of the Asian tsunami disaster were flashed around
the world, an aircraft loaded with equipment touched down in Sri Lanka
at Colombo international airport.

Within minutes, technicians had set up an emergency
telecommunications centre with satellite phone lines and high-speed
internet connections. Relief organisations were quick to avail
themselves of the service. Satellite lines were made available to
hospitals and to link survivors with the outside world.

The initiative was the work of Télécoms sans Frontières (TSF), a new
charity backed by companies including Vodafone, Cable & Wireless
and Inmarsat. With fixed-line and mobile networks down, the victims in
many of the tsunami-struck regions - as in other disaster zones -…

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Tags: Baghdad, Bangkok, Cable & Wireless, Colombo, Colombo international airport, communication networks, electronic equipment, Elizabeth Judge, emergency telecommunications, food, France, Grenada, Hambontota, high-speed internet, high-speed internet connections, high-speed internet connections, high-speed Internet, Inmarsat, Jean-Franois Cazenove, Kosovo, normal phone networks, Oisin Walton, Pau, Satellite lines, satellite phone, satellite phone lines, satellite phones, Sri Lanka, telecommunications, the Philippines, TSF, Vodafone, www.timesonline.com.

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