Medfield, MA (PRWEB) 10 January 2008
Innovative use of mobile phones, laptops and other wireless devices can save lives communications for the prisoner in a series of winter storms continue to lash the country offer.
disasters and homeland security consultant W. David Stephenson of Stephenson Strategies (Medfield, Mass.) – has taken in I-78 of last year’s Valentine’s Day snow storm in Pennsylvania – has released a series of YouTube videos (http:// tinyurl.com/35yc6r) and offers more tips on his popular blog (http://tinyurl.com/26zjsy) in a series he calls “21st-century disaster tips you do not hear from officials do not.”
“It’s become second nature for us to use cell phones and computers in the event of disasters, to obtain contact information and family and friends,” said Stephenson. “Their creative use can provide valuable information to the authorities and provide links with others in the storm itself or caught without power in our neighborhood. However, improper use, especially voice calls, the situation may get worse.”
Other suggestions
said Stephenson:
* Free firmware CUWin, a nonprofit group, neighbors or truck (with more portable) to communicate with wireless networks, both in a normal neighborhood or virtually a straight line, when thousands are disabled on a highway.
camera phones * Let people provide invaluable “situational awareness” to the authorities to collect a process similar to New York and process to produce information.
Using Twitter, some people SMS service to friends and / or the public have to know what they are doing (http://twitter.com), and information in real time on a emergency situation, as the success of the fires in California or I-35 bridge collapse. A single Twitter message can also leave all your family and friends know that they are OK or need help.
because there is a maximum of 140 characters in the messages and packet-based uses (so it can route around network failures), said Stephenson, Twitter and other social networking SMS applications preferable to make are voice calls that can not get a rule to May and paralyze the cellular phone networks. He noted that the American Red Cross has a variety of channels “Twitter” is set for an emergency.
* If the unit is off and the whole infrastructure is destroyed, neighbors may follow the lead of a DC group, and even relay vital information on a simple network of $ 20, battery, walkie-talkie.
The proposals also include innovative techniques, technologies such as GPS or use self-powered OLPC laptop designed for educational purposes in developing countries.
Stephenson Strategies under contract is to create a national public information education project in 2008, the public through the intelligent use of wireless devices in an emergency.
Stephenson Strategies, a specialist in communications strategy and innovative Web 2.0-based approaches for homeland security, disaster management and e-Government fields, so that the public and make them full partners in the preparation and response.
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