[Olpc-open] Disaster Relief, Emergency, UN Agencies

big one bigone at qon.lao.net
Wed Oct 3 21:05:13 EDT 2007


During unpredictable disasters such as earthquake, tsunami, XO laptops can be used for coordinating rescue / relief effort such as food/water/tent/medicine distributions. XO can also be used as fast data gathering tools for about the disaster for government/disaster relief agency. Perhaps the emergency XO can be stored inside a waterproof container/plastic inside a strong metal box. XO laptops can also be used as quick replacement of damaged computers in temporary schools on refugee tents. 

On other disaster, perhaps XO can be used as emergency data/picture/video when the power line is damaged because of storm, flood etc.

I hope OLPC can cooperate with various UN agencies such as WHO, UNICEF, FAO, WFP etc about spread of information on basic hygiene, food/crop production, health, disease prevention etc. The XO laptops can display pictures, play sound/video recording about the important information to iliterate people. Perhaps WHO/other organizations can develop USG, ECG, or other small health diagnostic for tele medicine in rural areas/ emergency. Perhaps FAO/WFP can use XO laptops to spread information about agriculture commodity price, diseases on plant/farm animals, weather.

See other usage related to Simputer/similar projects:

http://www.centerdigitalgov.com/international/story.php?docid=53451

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