relief disaster
RSS relief disasterEuropean satellite services are green for launch
News Companies that offer satellite-based services including mobile data, mobile TV, disaster relief and remote medical services will soon be able to do so across the whole of Europe, after the European... [11 Aug 2008]
Disaster Defeats High-Tech Recovery Effort
White Paper But on a macro level, it's no surprise that they will occur, often in parts of the world with little ability to recover on their own or the infrastructure to support multinational relief efforts. To be ready, the... [03 Jul 2008]
Financial Controls and Disaster Relief: Oxymoron or Realistic Objective?
White Paper Nevertheless, during a catastrophic disaster, decision makers struggle with the tension between implementing controls and accountability mechanisms and the demand for rapid response and recovery assistance. [12 Mar 2008]
NDPPC Improves Ability to Respond to Emergencies With Advanced Mapping System
White Paper The National Disaster Prevention and Protection Commission (NDPPC) R.O.C.is responsible for developing and coordinating disaster relief and rescue operations in Taiwan. The NDPPC... [09 Feb 2008]
Modeling and Simulations of TCP MANET Worms
White Paper Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are used for emergency situations like disaster - relief, military applications, and emergency medical situations. These applications make MANETs attractive targets for... [09 Jan 2008]
Science of Continuous Media Application Design in Wireless Networks of Mobile Devices
White Paper Example deployments might include disaster relief missions, conferences, and university campuses to name a few. Display of continuous media using self-organizing ad hoc networks of wireless communication... [01 Aug 2007]
Connecting to the world when disaster strikes
Case Study TSF connects vulnerable regions to the BGAN, which can co-ordinate their relief efforts to make sure the appropriate amount and type of aid reaches a region at the right time. Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) provides... [11 Jun 2007]
Fault-Tolerant Clustering in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
White Paper Moreover, there are a growing number of real (even commercial) systems that are being built, ranging from monitoring and surveillance, to medical applications, the observation of biological and chemical processes, and... [23 May 2007]
Portal Solution Accelerates Global Relief Agency's Response to Asian Tsunami
White Paper CRS responded quickly to the devastating South Asian tsunami of 2004, but the disaster's unprecedented scale required new tools for managing the relief effort. As the official overseas... [13 Oct 2006]
IP-Based Interoperability: Uniting Radio, Data Worlds for Defense and Disaster Relief Applications
White Paper The United States National Guard's Joint User Interoperable Communications (JUICE) '04 Exercise, which took place in August in St. Louis, Missouri, demonstrated the fast and secure deployment of an IP voice network during a complete loss... [29 Aug 2006]
ITU satellite phone deal for disaster relief
News Satellite phone company Thuraya has struck a deal with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for the supply of handsets when major disasters strike around the world. Events such as the Asian tsunami at the end of 2004, the... [11 Jul 2006]
Cisco Provides Core Network Infrastructure for World's Largest Multinational Military Exercise
White Paper Combined Endeavor 2006 is a two-week operation designed to test and document the interoperability of vital communication systems for multinational forces deployed in humanitarian, peacekeeping and disaster... [02 Jun 2006]
Leader: Is disaster recovery talk in poor taste?
Leader NetSuite on the other hand said it would mention it, though not make a virtue of it, citing a number of customers who had expressed relief that important customer, financial and sales data had survived Hurricane Katrina... [18 Apr 2006]
Microsoft gives $41m to emergency relief tech
News Microsoft is donating $41m in software and cash to two organisations working to enable better use of communications technology by disaster relief agencies. The recipients are NetHope, an organisation... [22 Feb 2006]
Pakistan earthquake relief: Appeal to tech
News Hidaya Foundation, an aid organisation in San Jose, California, is collecting donations for earthquake victims and organising relief. The group hopes to convince another 50 tech companies to do the same and is tapping... [11 Oct 2005]
