Hi Taran
ARC is a great concept because it sounds so easy to set up and use
("sounds" only judgmental on my tech understanding, not on the concept).
After the tsunami, my brother got an SMS from the Red Cross telling him
a friend who was in Sri Lanka was accounted for and OK. He actually
didn't even know his friend was in Sri Lanka to start with. Though this
is not using your ARC concept, wasn't it already a way of streamlining
the use of SMS? Apparently, the Red Cross sent an automatic message to
all the contacts of people's cell phones.
Now if I understand correctly, you say they could had added a number
that would have sent the same message to a mailing list all relief
bodies could have accessed?
If that's right, then yes, it must be done. You are saying it may be
late for helping Katrina victims. Maybe not: your anger at ARC not being
used so far is understandable. But in the height of an emergency people
are not at their best learning new things. After, there is still a lot
of information that must be shared, and with less immediate pressure,
relief agencies might be more willing to explore a system that would
work even with no internet connection directly at hand.
cheers
Claude
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