Senior Research Fellow Nuwan Waidyanatha recently completed an action research project on how local-language voice communication can be used in early warning and other disaster management tasks. A 10 mt video has just been released.
LIRNEasia disaster management action research: Video on using voice in local languages
Posted on May 17, 2012 / 1 Comments
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1 Comment
COL SANJAY SRIVASTAVA
Its a wonderful tool for Disaster Management specially in alert, search and rescue and recovery phase.It would yield better result once it is integrated with all that communication, Police, Response Force, Sarvodaya , Administrators and emergency service providers say medical ,water food and supplies etc.