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Give a man internet & he’ll surf for a day, teach him how to network and he’ll email you forever…
A big part of our work is sharing our knowledge and making sure that we leave the communities to whose aid we come better prepared. That means that we teach them to maintain the technology that we provide them with.…
Posted in News, Sitrep Tagged with: #commisaid, #hagupit, #rubyph, #yolandaph #philippines #haiyan #telecoms, arapal, Cambium, cebu, communication, disaster response, disaster tech lab
Wireless site surveys in disaster zones.
It was in December 2012 at the start of our deployment following hurricane Sandy that we carried out our first wireless signal survey. Our Sandy response effort in the Rockaway area of New York City was our first one in a 1st…
Posted in News, Tech Tagged with: communications, crisisignal, disaster response, disastertech, haiyan, opensignal, Sandy, survey, yolanda
WLAN Pros Summit.
Wireless Guru extraordinaire Keith Parsons offered us an opportunity to speak at the 1st WLAN Pros Summit in Austin TX last month. Not only did we get the opportunity to talk about a work to an audience of top-class WiFi experts…
Posted in News Tagged with: #wlpc, conference, disaster response, evert bopp, keith parsons, presentation, wifi, wlan pro
Wireless Field Day: “WiFi in disaster response”.
Below is my presentation from the recent Wireless Field Day in San Jose.
The reach of social media in disaster response scenarios.
Following the recent Boston bombings there has again been a lot of discussion on the role which social media plays as part of the dissemination of information and advice following disasters and public safety incident. The discussions this time has…
Posted in News, Uncategorized Tagged with: #smem, crisidata, crisis, disaster response, Facebook, Social media, twitter
2013; an exciting year ahead!
2013 is set to become a very exciting year for Disaster Tech Lab. Only 6 months after it was started as a subsidiary of Haiti Connect it has grown so rapidly that as of a few days ago “Disaster Tech…
Posted in News Tagged with: disaster response, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Fema, Haiti, New York City, NYC, Sandy, White House
Virtual Operations Support teams & Social media
Philadelphia Medical Reserve Corps VOST Introduction View more PowerPoint from Jim Garrow
Posted in News Tagged with: disaster response, incident support, philidelphia medical reserve corps, Social media, vsot
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