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A world free from 9/11s and tsunamis?
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, [...]
Indonesia conducts tsunami response drill
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, [...]
Advance publicity for HazInfo dissemination meeting, Dhaka, 25 October 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 [...]
Coverage for the Last Mile project
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, [...]
Unicode compliant browser in Sinhala launched
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 [...]
Hutch’s entry in Indonesia triggers price competition in mobile market
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 [...]
Significant progress made on making communities resilient to disasters
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 28th and [...]
Colloquium: Indonesia Sector Performance/Indicators study
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.
Pangandaran highlights importance of last mile
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 [...]
Indonesians die again without official warning
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 [...]
Indonesia tsunami system ‘not ready’
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 [...]
Live feed: Colloquium on A Common Alerting Protocol Message Relay
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 [...]
Wi-Fi “Innovation” in Indonesia: Working around Hostile Market and Regulatory Conditions
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]
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Executive Summary
With their low-cost and quick deployment time, wireless Internet technologies [...]
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