http://www.humanitarian.info/2005/12/03/back-to-reality-pakistan/ because information can save lives Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:58:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.humanitarian.info/2005/12/03/back-to-reality-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-97868 humanitarian.info » Dial H for Humanitarian Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:57:41 +0000 http://www.reliefsource.org/?p=23#comment-97868 [...] The first is that reliance on cellphones creates a security risk, as I identified in the ECB Assessment. In a number of countries (for example, Sudan or Sri Lanka), cellphone networks are regularly pulled by the government on grounds of “national security”; in other countries, we have seen how cellphone networks can collapse when faced with (for example) a major earthquake (as in Pakistan in 2005). [...] [...] The first is that reliance on cellphones creates a security risk, as I identified in the ECB Assessment. In a number of countries (for example, Sudan or Sri Lanka), cellphone networks are regularly pulled by the government on grounds of “national security”; in other countries, we have seen how cellphone networks can collapse when faced with (for example) a major earthquake (as in Pakistan in 2005). [...]

]]> http://www.humanitarian.info/2005/12/03/back-to-reality-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-76345 humanitarian.info » Do mobile phones answer all our prayers? Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:18:07 +0000 http://www.reliefsource.org/?p=23#comment-76345 [...] written about the role that mobile telephony can play in humanitarian assistance quite a few times now, without really talking about it directly. The one line I have consistently taken is that [...] [...] written about the role that mobile telephony can play in humanitarian assistance quite a few times now, without really talking about it directly. The one line I have consistently taken is that [...]

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