In a message dated 1/23/05 1:23:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >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? > > Here is another. Dont't know if the administration believes in it..yet > > > I have been involved as a student of the National Center for SuperComputing Applications and some of the recent disasters have been classified so I could not attend or was not invited but. This is a remarkable consortium Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium Technical Point of Contact: Management Point of Contact: Name: Tom Coffin Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 703-248-0105/0072 NCSA Division: Cybercommunities Name: Janet I. Thot-Thompson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 703-248-0102 NCSA Division: Cybercommunities Project URL: http://www.mscmc.org Summary: The mission of MSCMC is to reduce the time required to insert IT innovation to improve systems and processes for the crisis management community and to develop models of information technology in crisis management to demonstrate what it means to manage a crisis using advanced integrated communications and information technologies yet to be developed. The MSCMC is a virtual, distributed collaboration among government agencies, academic research partners, and private sector partners. The chair of the Consortium is a rotating position currently held by Syed Qadir of the National Response Center (see http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/index.htm). Janet Thot-Thompson, NCSA, is the acting executive director. The Consortium convenes meetings, workshops, and seminars using the ACCESS center in D.C. as its international headquarters. This uses IGrid and Supercomputing to read groups and to work through disasters on an international level. How much funding they have, I don't know but it is an intriguing model in that there is almost instant communication which can get down to the lowest level from the top of the infrastructure communications to blog in a few seconds, if we wanted it to. Grid.org http://www.grid.org/ Sincerely Bonnie Bracey bbracey at aol com _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
