Tag Archive for ‘Java’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Java'

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A world free from 9/11s and tsunamis?

on September 12, 2008

Exactly seven years from yesterday (still today to some), early in the morning on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. The hijackers flew two of the airliners, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. Another group of hijackers flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. A fourth flight, United Airlines Flight 93, whose ultimate target was either the United States Capitol or White House, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The rest, as we say, is history.

What 9/11 was to the West, ‘the’ tsunami was to the South. Caught unaware, more than 225,000 lives…

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Tags: Alberta, Asia, Boston, Boxing Day, Colombo, communication technologies, conventional fixed wireless telephones, Gordon Gow, hazard alert systems, India, Indonesia, International Development Research Centre, Java, LIRNEasia, Los Angeles, mobile phones, Newark, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Peter Anderson, public network, remote alarm device, SAN FRANCISCO, satellite radio, satellite technology, Shanksville, Simon Fraser University, South Towers, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan government, Thailand, United States Capitol, University of Alberta, Very Small Aperture Terminal, VSAT, west coast, White House, World Trade Center.

Indonesia conducts tsunami response drill

Rohan Samarajiva

on December 27, 2007

AFP: Asia remembers tsunami victims three years on

Also in Indonesia, a dramatic drill simulating a tsunami strike was held in Java’s coastal province of Banten involving around 9,000 residents, local television reported.

The simulation, designed to test a tsunami warning system gradually being rolled out, saw hundreds of students, along with residents clutching children, rush to higher ground assailed by wailing sirens.

“This country is vulnerable to tsunami threats. Let us pray to God for this country to be kept safe from tsunamis,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said after observing the exercise.

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Tags: Asia, Banten, Indonesia, Java, simulation, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Advance publicity for HazInfo dissemination meeting, Dhaka, 25 October 2007

Rohan Samarajiva

on October 2, 2007

:The Daily Star: Internet Edition

Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s largest community-based organisation, and LIRNEasia, a regional ICT policy think-tank, collaborated on a 32-village pilot project that sought to identify the best technologies for reaching villages; to identify the significance of organisational strength and training for risk reduction; and to assess the participation of women in these activities.The community-based approach implemented in the project is different from a public-warning approach, but has lessons for government communications with first responders and for community organisation and training as well.

For example, the project field tested addressable and remotely activated satellite radios that have coverage over the entire Bay of Bengal region. Other equipment deployed included Java and Symbion enabled mobile handsets capable of generating loud alarms and multi-language alert messages.

The Bangladesh…

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Tags: activated satellite radios, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Network Office for Urban Safety, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bay of Bengal, Community, Daily Star, Department of Civil Engineering, DHAKA, government communications, Internet Edition, ITN Centre, Java, last-mile warning systems, MILE WARNING SYSTEMS, Sri Lanka.

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.

Unicode compliant browser in Sinhala launched

Rohan Samarajiva

on April 27, 2007

Pasted below is a communication from Harsha Purasinghe of MicroImage that may be of interest to readers of this website.

“We are pleased to inform you all that Dialog Telekom launched the Sinhala & Tamil Mobile Browser and their Content Portal “SINHALANTHAYA” during New Year week. The browser can be downloaded by visiting http://www.dialogwap.com using your mobile and going into Application Download Area. This is the 1st ever launch of most successful Unicode compliant browser application. This application runs on wide range of phones starting from entry level low end Java Hand Sets, High End Java Hand Sets, Microsoft Windows Mobile Hand Sets and Black Berries.”

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Tags: Dialog Telekom, Harsha Purasinghe, Java, Microsoft, mobile Internet, New Year\'s Day, present content portal.

Hutch’s entry in Indonesia triggers price competition in mobile market

Divakar Goswami

on April 6, 2007

Hutch’s entry into Indonesia’s mobile market as the 5th significant operator has started putting downward pressure on mobile calling prices, as I had predicted in my Oped piece Lower mobile prices: Through competition or profit regulation? in January of 2007. It is too early to call it a “price war” as the article below does, but the signs that prices are coming down is evident. Indonesia’s mobile retail prices are some of the highest in Asia and there is enough room for the prices to drop further. Currently, Hutch’s competitors are reacting by issuing promotions to match the new entrant’s offering, but this does not per se signify a permanent cut in prices. At the end of the promotion period the operators have a choice of reverting back…

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Tags: agroindustry group, Alfa Group, Andrei Zemnitsky, Asia, Bakrie Telecom, CDMA, Charoen Pokphand, crowded wireless telecoms, fixed wireless, GSM, Hong Kong, Hutchison Charoen Pokphand Telecom, Hutchison Telecommunications International, India, Indonesia, Indosat, Jakarta, Java, mobile retail prices, pre-paid product, Rajiv Sawney, United States, USD, Vodafone, wireless access.

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.

Colloquium: Indonesia Sector Performance/Indicators study

Ayesha Zainudeen

on November 9, 2006

As part of the Six Country Indicators Project, Divakar presents the interim findings from the Indonesia country study. The study assesses Indonesia’s telecom sector and regulatory performance. It employs the common methodology and list of indicators adopted for the Six Country study.

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Tags: 2G services, 3G, ADSL, Bakrie Group, Fixed wireless operators, fixed wireless subscriber, GSM, Harsha de Silva, India, Indonesia, Internet access, Internet penetration, ISP, Java, Lorraine Carlos Salazar, mobile Internet, New government, Philippines, PT Indosat, PT Telekom, Satelindo, Singapore, Thailand, VOIP, wireless access.

Pangandaran highlights importance of last mile

Rohan Samarajiva

on July 23, 2006

New Straits Times - Malaysia News Online
Unlike other natural calamities, the worst effects of the tsunami are now mostly avoidable. So following the catastrophe, countries around the ocean’s rim, helped by the United Nations and other partners, went about putting an early warning system into place.

None of the fancy equipment and good intentions made a difference last Monday when a 7.7-magnitude undersea quake south of Java triggered a tsunami that smashed into 200 kilometres of coastline around Pangandaran.

What ensued was a scaled-down reprise of December 2004: communities caught by surprise, the death toll mounting as bodies are uncovered and, most regretfully, alarm bells lost in transmission. To be fair, unlike its much bigger but slower rolling predecessor, the Java temblor gave the Indonesian Bureau of…

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Tags: early warning network, fancy equipment, Geophysics, Indonesian Bureau of Meteorology and Geophysics, Java, Thailand, United Nations.

Live Feed: Common Alerting Protocol Workshop of the Last Mile HazInfo Project in Sri Lanka

Nuwan Waidyanatha

on July 21, 2006

Nandan Jayasinghe –

We will start the event by lighting the traditional oil lamp. Next is a 2 minute meditation.

Nuwan Waidyanatha –

Welcome all partners including, Dr. Gordon Gow (University of Alberta), Dr. Dileeka Dias (Director Dialog Communication Research Lab), Prof Rohan Samarajiva (Director LIRNEasia), Mr. Nanadana Jayasinghe (Director Sarvodaya Disaster Management center), most importantly the Sarvodaya Participants (ICT Guardians).

Rohan Samarajiva –

We started the lat Mile HazInfo Program on January 23, 2006. The objective of my talk is to introduce you to the framework used in this project. The attendees are people who have faced the great tragedy that happened in December 26, 2004. Since then, 20 months later, we still have no solution in our nation.

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Indonesians die again without official warning

Rohan Samarajiva

on July 19, 2006

What will it take?

2004 December 26th

2005 March 28th

2006 July 17th

Three tsunamis within less than two years; and the clueless Indonesian government can’t still get its act together.

And faraway India is supposed to have issued a warning when there was no chance of a tsunami hitting India. CYA bureaucrat, I guess. A different error.

Sri Lanka radios are supposed to have carried the story within about 30 mts. If true, this is very good.

AP Report
Science and Technology Minister Kusmayanto Kadiman said Indonesia received the bulletins 45 minutes before the tsunami hit but did not announce them because they did not want to cause unnecessary alarm.

\”If it (the tsunami) did not occur, what would have happened?\” he told reporters in Jakarta, noting that there was no effective way…

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Tags: ACEH, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Indonesian government, Jakarta, Java, Jusuf Kalla, Kusmayanto Kadiman, Sri Lanka, Sumatra island, The Associated Press.

Indonesia tsunami system ‘not ready’

Chanuka Wattegama

on July 19, 2006

By Laura Smith-Spark
BBC News
Eighteen months after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, hundreds have died after a giant wave struck the Indonesian island of Java.
Their deaths have raised questions about the failure of a promised Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system to sound an adequate alert.
More than 300 people died and about 140 were reported missing after the tsunami struck Java’s southern coast on Monday.
Witnesses have said people had little or no warning to flee the 2m-high wave triggered by an undersea earthquake.

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Live feed: Colloquium on A Common Alerting Protocol Message Relay

Ayesha Zainudeen

on June 15, 2006

Nuwan Waidyanatha - Project Manager, Last Mile Hazard Warning System

The socioeconomic belief is that a CAP message relay is one way of effectively managing disasters, and that is what is envisioned in the Last-Mile Hazard Warning System (LM-HWS) Pilot Project. I will be talking about the current Workpackage of the LM-HWS project, which is developing the Hazard Information Hub (HIH). The general objective of the LM-HWS project is to evaluate the suitability of a selected set of ICT that can communicate CAP messages and alert the village first-responders. The Sarvodaya HIH was specifically built with the intension of providing structured risk information such as CAP messages to the local communities.

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Tags: Biswajit Nandy, Dialog Telekom, Gordon Gow, internet emergency, Internet Emergency Public Alerting System, Java, Last Mile Hazard Warning, Nabil Seddigh, Ottawa, public alert client software, public official web portal, Response Addressable Satellite Radio, Rupinder Singh, SMS, Solana Networks, Sri Lanka, system admin tools, University of Moratuwa, Warning Network Remote Alarm Device Dialog Telekom, WorldSpace Global Data Solutions.

Wi-Fi “Innovation” in Indonesia: Working around Hostile Market and Regulatory Conditions

Indi Samarajiva

on May 18, 2006

By Divakar Goswami & Onno Purbo, March 2006
LIRNEasia’s latest research paper is available for comment. The paper looks at the deployment of Wi-Fi in Indonesia, under the 2005 WDR theme, ‘Diversifying Participation in Network Development.’

Download paper: indonesia wi-fi study 2.0 [PDF]

Please post your comments below.

Executive Summary
With their low-cost and quick deployment time, wireless Internet technologies like Wi-Fi offer last-mile access network solutions to developing countries with limited network infrastructure. Among developing countries, Indonesia is unique for the extent of Wi-Fi that has been deployed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and private entrepreneurs in more than 40 towns and cities across the archipelagic nation. However, the findings from the current study finds that Wi-Fi “innovations” in Indonesia are not a result of enlightened policy designed to extend…

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