[Mesh] Fwd: [gaia] disaster relief communication

Fri Oct 6 08:49:24 PDT 2017

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From: *Arzak Khan* <director at ipop.org.pk>
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2017
Subject: [gaia] disaster relief communication
To: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl at cs.washington.edu>, Rex Buddenberg <
buddenbergr at gmail.com>
Cc: gaia <gaia at irtf.org>, Steve Song <stevesong at nsrc.org>, Arjuna
Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan at 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 at irtf.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gaia-bounces at irtf.org');>> on behalf of
Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl at cs.washington.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kheimerl at 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 at gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','buddenbergr at 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 at nsrc.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stevesong at 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > +1 902 529 0046
> > > stevesong at nsrc.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stevesong at nsrc.org');>
> > > http://nsrc.org
> > >
> > >
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