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The Long Last Mile

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Courtesy of Nuwan on the humanitarian-ict mailing list, I just watched “The Long Last Mile” on YouTube. Produced by Television for Education – Asia Pacific, it describes the project by LIRNEasia to evaluate Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination. Some useful points in an accessible format – redundancy in communication technologies, identification of key responders, community engagement in the process, the importance of simulation exercises for learning, and so on. Only 12 minutes long, it’s definitely worth watching. Plus, YouTube! Web2.0! Etc, etc.

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Written by Paul Currion

February 1st, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Posted in Early Warning,Sri Lanka,Tsunami

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  1. Many thanks for the link and your kind words about the video, which I wrote and executive produced. I have also written a non-technical piece about the same topic as a chapter (‘Bridging the Long Last Mile’) in a recent Asian regional book I co-edited called ‘Communicating Disasters’. The entire book is available for free download from http://www.tveap.org/disastercomm/index.html

    This particular chapter is found at:
    http://www.tveap.org/disastercomm/Chapters%20in%20seperate%20PDFs/Chap-15.pdf

    Nalaka Gunawardene

    24 Feb 08 at 13:40

  2. Hi Nalaka – I blogged briefly about the Communicating Disasters book, but I have to be honest, I found it a bit confusing. I think I wasn’t entirely sure about who the target audience was, in terms of who would find it most useful. There were definitely interesting articles in there though, and at this stage we need more contributions like this to the discussions.

    Paul Currion

    25 Feb 08 at 10:40

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