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Excerpt from ICT for Crisis and Emergency Mgmt: Asking the Right Questions 2007-11-05 10:14:19 In an article being presented this week in Delft, The Netherlands (photo is of Delft) called ICT for Crisis
and Emergency
Management: Asking the Right
Questions, John R. Harrald, Director Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at The George Washington University, said"After the 9-11 attacks the United States began a process of developing extensive doctrine and structure to define and support a national crisis and emergency management system, and this process has accelerated since the failed response to Katrina. Technological solutions are being sought to problems encountered in implementing the structure and doctrine. In other words we are asking the question:How can technology improve our ability to do what we are currently doing within the constraints of our existing structure and doctrine?“I believe that this strategy is self limiting, and that the question we should be asking is:What new things can technology enable us to do that will dramatically improve or change pr
Mobile Social Trends 2007-11-01 08:40:56 Part I: MobileSocialTrends
This three part white paper entitled Citizen Sensors: Putting the 'Public' Back in Public Safety, shows how the confluence of two very important wireless mobile forces is leading to a transformation in the way public safety is practiced. These two merging forces, one social and one technical, are coming together to provide a totally new concept in public safety: put the public at the center of the solution.Part I focuses on the social trends that have led to the formation of groups of citizens acting as ‘sensors’. In Part II we will focus specifically on those rapidly moving mobile technical trends. Finally in Part III we will bring the technical and social trends together and describe the new and unique approach Mogility is taking towards using mobile technology, and leveraging the social trends it is fostering, to build connected networks of highly participatory citizens acting as sensors that will create a powerful force for public safety called Loc
Mobile Technical Trends 2007-10-31 06:59:24 Part II: Mobile
Technology Trends
In order for ‘Citizens as Sensors’ to become a viable movement in Public safety, a convergence of mobile social trends and mobile technology trends is required. In part I of this white paper, we showed that social trends have set the stage for people to contribute to public safety as Citizen Sensors. But do they have the right tools? Here in part II we will examine current mobile trends to determine whether or not the technology exists to fully support Citizen Sensors. We will look specifically at what building blocks are required to build a supporting platform for the Citizen Sensor movement. A callout box to the left provides a glossary of a few critical terms used in this paper.Introduction to Part IIWhat are the basic mobile technology building blocks needed to support Citizen Sensors? A quick glance at statistics and predictions about mobile technology penetration makes it abundantly clear we are observing the most rapid adoption and evolution Read more:Technical
Mogility’s Local Eyes™ 2007-10-30 09:12:42 Part III: Local
Eyes™ — Citizen Sensor CommunitiesIn order for ‘Citizens as Sensors’ to become a viable movement in public safety, a convergence of two separate mobile trends is required. In part I of this white paper, we showed that social trends have set the stage for people to contribute to public safety as Citizen Sensors. In part II we examined current mobile trends to determine whether or not the capability exists to fully support Citizen Sensors. What we found was a rich set of capabilities and very rapid adoption of those technologies in the handsets, the networks and by the users themselves. Here in part III we will focus on the convergence of these trends and what has been attempted so far to use that convergence on behalf of public safety. We will introduce Mogility’s Local Eyes™, originally developed by MITRE for the US military, which serves as the first and only framework for agile mobile applications. Technical Trends RevisitedLet's review the 'so what's'
Opening the Mobile Walled Gardens: What Does This Mean? 2007-11-30 13:47:36 The AnnouncementThis week Verizon made a surprise announcement. Here is what they said: “In early 2008, the company will publish the technical standards the development community will need to design products to interface with the Verizon Wireless network. Any device that meets the minimum technical standard will be activated on the network. Devices will be tested and approved in a $20 million state-of-the-art testing lab which received an additional investment this year to gear up for the anticipated new demand. Any application the customer chooses will be allowed on these devices.”Previous StanceBefore this, Verizon, and to only a slightly lesser extent, all the other network operators had executed a strategy known as a “walled garden”. Frankly, Verizon was the worst of the worst about having a completely closed network and with this announcement they are trying to claim the high ground of “openness”. What is meant by a walled garden is that the operator (who, unlike with Read more:Mobile
, Gardens
End-to-end Operation of Local Eyes in a Neighborhood Watch Scenario 2008-02-04 08:27:41 Using the link below you can see a 10 minute video demonstration of the functioning of Local
Eyes. Using a neighborhood watch scenario, I captured screen shots of the creation of a Gizmo from scratch using pictures for each menu choice the user will be asked to choose from. Then I filmed my phone as I used it to report on a suspicious truck in my neighborhood. Finally I went back to screen shots to show how that report came in within a second or so and showed my location retrieved from my bluetooth-connected pocket GPS device as I made the report, showed the photo I snapped on my phone of the suspicious truck and finally, showed how the coordinator can directly communicate back to the reporter with directives to help keep the mobile community cohesive and informed.Click on the YouTube logo Read more:Operation
, Neighborhood
Mobile Orchestrated Networking 2008-01-10 12:22:45 Getting a diverse but like-minded group of people who are inherently mobile to work effectively towards the common good of the group is a challenge.Social networks are unstructured and undisciplined at best and are just citizen journalism or blog or photo sharing at worst so social networking is not a good model to follow.What is needed is what I am calling Mobile
Orchestrated Networking. This is because to accomplish something as a group, people plus information plus process needs to be carefully orchestrated. This takes a workflow driven by a coordinated, distributed application that runs across all mobile devices of all participants in the orchestrated network. What this workflow needs to achieve to be successful in creating a strong community with a purpose are two things: situational
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