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From: *Arzak Khan* <director(a)ipop.org.pk>
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2017
Subject: [gaia] disaster relief communication
To: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu>du>, Rex Buddenberg <
buddenbergr(a)gmail.com>
Cc: gaia <gaia(a)irtf.org>rg>, Steve Song <stevesong(a)nsrc.org>rg>, Arjuna
Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan(a)cl.cam.ac.uk>
Dear All,
We at Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan are running an initiative called
TOPS (Tactical Operations) activated during disasters across Pakistan.
Basically our tactical operations provide the following:
- 1) Tactical Operations team uses portable satellite communications
equipment to provide voice and data communications for aid workers who rely
on these tools to coordinate logistics and deliver lifesaving supplies.
- 2) Provide vital ICT Support (Internet, Telephone, Sat-phone and
E-mail) to first responders and relief organizations.
- 3) Establish multiple communications center equipped with internet,
phone and radio capabilities. In addition, iPOP tactical operations team
also provides free phone calls to people living in temporary camps and
shelters.
- 4) Establish dedicated communication center for women enabling them to
communication and reconnect them with displaced family members.
We have been working jointly with Provincial Disaster Management
Authorities on various missions during floods, earthquake and other man
made disasters. You can learn more about it
http://ipop.org.pk/
initiatives/tops/
<http://ipop.org.pk/initiatives/tops/>
Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan | iPOP Tactical ...
<http://ipop.org.pk/initiatives/tops/>
ipop.org.pk
Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan tactical operations team can establish
satellite based communications system so government agencies, humanitarian
organizations ...
I would be happy to share further insight in to out planning and deployment
if needed.
Best,
Arzak Khan
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*From:* gaia <gaia-bounces(a)irtf.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gaia-bounces@irtf.org');>> on
behalf of
Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kheimerl@cs.washington.edu');>>
*Sent:* Tuesday, October 3, 2017 6:14 PM
*To:* Rex Buddenberg
*Cc:* gaia; Steve Song; Arjuna Sathiaseelan
*Subject:* Re: [gaia] disaster relief communication
I want to support Steve's request here; as someone who has dabbled in
Disaster Relief it feels like there's an opportunity to do impactful work
in the space but I don't know of any good places to get grounded in the
current state of the art. Can we have any part of the upcoming GAIA meeting
be focused on exploring this topic? Any domain experts in Singapore we can
invite?
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Rex Buddenberg <buddenbergr(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','buddenbergr@gmail.com');>> wrote:
Suggest that there are two (at least) genres that need
to be merged --
treated together. Emergency services (reach to fire/ ambulance/
police/ ...) is the other genre. In a disaster, expect a push to build
out both.
Emergency services communications is one of the bastions of non-IP
technologies. P25 is an example of a protocol heavily pushed by
various emergency services agencies. But it's non-routable. Much of
the development has been colored by the perceived need to jam whatever
comms link is concocted into the narrowband Land Mobile Radio channels
(25kHz and less).
The economics is that the two genres end up costing twice for the
infrastructure. This is true both for permanent infrastructure and
quick-build into disaster areas.
Warning: this is an area of acrimonious debate, often sadly lacking in
facts. But it is a debate that needs to be joined.
On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 17:40 +0100, Arjuna Sathiaseelan wrote:
Hello Steve,
the IEEE global humanitarian technology conference is a good venue to
look at for the latest research/deployment experience papers:
last year:
http://sites.ieee.org/ghtc/event-2016/call-for-papers-2016
/
this looks like a good journal to keep an eye on when the papers get
published:
http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections-closed/mission
-critical-public-safety-communications-architectures-enabling-
technologies-future-applications/
regards
a decent survey paper:
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/87438/5/Survey_of_wireless_communicati
on_technologies_for_public_safety.pdf
regards
On 3 October 2017 at 17:25, Steve Song <stevesong(a)nsrc.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stevesong@nsrc.org');>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Are there any particularly good web resources and/or academic
> papers that
> profile the range of disaster relief technologies / solutions both
> planned
> and currently in use?
>
> Many thanks... Steve
>
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