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National Early Warning System

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on March 7, 2005 — 11 Comments

National Early Warning System: Sri Lanka (NEWS:SL): A Participatory Concept Paper for the Design of an Effective All-Hazard Public Warning System (Version 2.1) Annexes: A Participatory Concept Paper for the Design of an Effective All-Hazard Public Warning System (Version 2.1) *Executive Summary*# *The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of one in 500 [...]

Posted in Documents, Projects | Also tagged Bangladesh, floods, hazard detection systems, Indian Ocean, Mauritius, Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka Act, social infrastructure, Sri Lanka, technology*, telecommunications, telecommunications network

Tsunami Timeline

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on January 2, 2005 — 7 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in Disaster, Projects | Also tagged Indian Ocean

Big picture of telecom reforms

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on November 7, 2004 — 7 Comments

Yesterday, I spoke to a large and restive crowd (made so by lack of air conditioning and a delayed start) in Matara (main city in the South of Sri Lanka) at the launch of the Pathfinder Foundation’s first book, a Sinhala translation of Janos Kornai’s Toward a free economy. I was asked to talk about [...]

Posted in Events | Also tagged adequate infrastructure, agricultural products, air services, America, American Midwest, Apollo Hospital, Asia, Austria, bank, banking, BPO, Broadband, broadband networks, chemicals, Chennai Apollo Hospital, China, Colombo, Communist government, computer-based information systems, electricity, fiber optic, Germany, hotel services, house-maid services, housemaid services, HSBC, Hungary, India, infrastructure, infrastructure services, intricate web, Ireland, Kandy, Kenya, kitchen equipment, LKR, low food prices, low-value-addition services, Maldives, microwave, Middle East, Milinda Moragoda, New York, niche applications, Northwestern, Pakistan, Parliament Road, Pathfinder Foundation, people wearing telephone headsets, Port of Colombo, Pramod Mahajan, Ranil Wickremesinghe, regional resource center, rubber, Sabaragamuva, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Telecom, subsidized electricity, telecom services, telecommunications, telecommunications facilities, telecommunications supply, the Philippines, transport systems, ultra reliable telecommunications, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, VSNL Lanka, West Bengal, Wickremesinghe government

News Feeds

Written by Indi Samarajiva on October 29, 2004 — 3 Comments

People seem to be biting the New York Times pretty hard this week, so I’ve added a direct feed to Circuits in the sidebar, and one to WiFi News for good measure. These are just temporary since people seem to be talking about these topics. We can get feeds to most big news sources (Harsha). [...]

Posted in General | Also tagged Broadband, Gizmodo Wireless, Sri Lanka, the New York Times, XML

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