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September 6, 2005

Digital-ER

"The Digital-ER mailing list is dedicated to dicussing technical solutions to emergency and crisis management."

Posted on September 6, 2005 at 7:08 AM2 Comments

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The top-level is a (media)wiki with a lot of emergency contact info and newsbits:
http://networkcommand.com/

There are other wikis with a bit more activity (http://wiki.nola-intel.org/)
including a scanner updates:
http://nola.heavycomputing.ca/...

And here's a first-hand crisis blog:
http://www.mgno.com/

P-15.org says they are working on a technical relief effort, and they have a discussion list that included VoIP and Wireless info:
http://archives.part-15.org/listarchive.asp?...

Of course the Red Cross also has a huge amount of information and news, but I wasn't able to dig up anything about technology issues:
http://www.redcross.org/

Speaking of technical solutions, I thought this Wired article on developing a better levee (or better sandbag?) was interesting:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/...

Posted by: Davi Ottenheimer at September 6, 2005 11:25 AM


Thanks for the links.

Posted by: Bruce Schneier at September 7, 2005 7:03 AM


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