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Zero Geography reports on a real-time game using GPS devices which has - for our purposes, interesting applications for coordinating SAR or other response efforts. From Zero Geography: GPS Real-World Gaming in Hybrid Space.
A real-time, multiplayer, GPS game for mobiles is being played out in the real-world. The game, [...]
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Monica Hesse at the Washington Post reports that a team from MIT has won a DARPA prize for solving a distributed problem with a team/network that was partly ad hoc. TheDARPA Network Challengerequired teams to locate 10 weather balloons located around the country. From Hesse's article, "Spy vs. spy on Facebook:"
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Excerpted from "Social Networks ," by Nicholas Christakis on The Situationist Blog, which is a blog maintained by The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School. The excerpt is long, but well worth reading. Let me first posit this question - why do some communities develop disaster-resilient networks and organizations - and others [...]
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Just read a remarkable piece on Network Weaving about hub-and-spoke networks. From Connected Customers:[The author, Valdis Krebs, had discussed attending a professional conference at a hotel]. The only negative with the event was the conference hotel's awful WiFi service -- and their response to it.Hotels are used to dealing with disconnected customers -- hotel guests who [...]
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Additional resources and ideas about the use of blogs during disasters:Rex Hammock puts it very concisely in this post, "Hyper-Local Blogging:In times of local crisis, the importance of having an active blogging community becomes very apparent. There are so many people outside an area who are desperately seeking information — any information — from the [...]
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Stimulating Broadband