Steven, http://www.knowprose.com/node/1231 is where ARC is evolving toward (I hope), and it fits what you are describing. It should be in the DigitalDivide.net Wiki sometime this weekend... I would really like interested people such as yourself involved in this... it's not my idea, it's not really a new idea... but it's an implementation that we could at least learn alot about from discussion.
Your email about that village in India... wow. I'd love to get more information on that, because that's exactly the idea that we'd like to implement globally... and yes, software can be written for the filtering you are discussing, though a lot of it can be done without writing any new software. We have the technology; we've had it for some time. :-) Steven Elster wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wondering about the "ARC system" in relation to the following: > > I have a friend who lives in Madras and who experienced first hand the > horrors of the tsunami. At the same time, I have a neighbor who studies > earthquakes. Apparently UCSD, in San Diego, sends out emails of all > earthquakes via its > 'Earthquake Notification E-mails' from the USGS: > http://earthquake.usgs.gov/products/services.html > While I don't know quite how, I hear that a program can be written > that will > send these earthquake notices as text messages to a cell phone. And > further, I wonder if these earthquake messages could be filtered such > that > only those messages that might impact a particular geographical area were > sent to the people with cell phones in that area. > > I have written my friend in India, and he says: "there are plenty of cell > phones around here, even in the tiniest villages." He further goes on to > say that a cell phone earthquake warning system "was in fact in place > in at > least one village here on the southeast coast. They got notice; > everybody > was evacuated in an orderly fashion and not one life was lost." > > First, it seems like a cell phone warning system can be implemented > directly between a data service > and the people of a village. But the data service -- like the > "'Earthquake > Notification E-mails' from the USGS" is probably free to anyone who > wants to > use it. On the other hand, filtering down the warnings so that they > apply > to a particular region would take technical knowledge, I don't know how > much. > >> From reading about the "ARC system", I can't quite figure out if it is > > already set up to do the above. Does anyone know the answer to this? > > > Thanks > Steven Elster > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the > body of the message. > -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
