I'm posting this NOT to open up a debate about evacuations and what's happening in the Middle East but, rather, as an example of how handheld technologies can be used in critical mass evacuation/mass communication effort -- which, IMO, is another reason to fund the bridging of the digital divide:

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=4384
5,000 Swedes evacuated from Lebanon by text message


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