Comments on: Nationwide Alert System or Emergency Twittering http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/ Ramblings about digital life Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: The Fast Moving Global Fingers of Social Media http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-38560 The Fast Moving Global Fingers of Social Media Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:12:09 +0000 http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-38560 [...] emergency disaster relief networks utilize microblogging platforms, like Twitter, for emergency announcements and valuable [...] [...] emergency disaster relief networks utilize microblogging platforms, like Twitter, for emergency announcements and valuable [...]

]]> By: What Can We Accomplish The Fast Moving Global Fingers of Social Media? http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-38547 What Can We Accomplish The Fast Moving Global Fingers of Social Media? Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:40:11 +0000 http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-38547 [...] emergency disaster relief networks utilize microblogging platforms, like Twitter, for emergency announcements and valuable [...] [...] emergency disaster relief networks utilize microblogging platforms, like Twitter, for emergency announcements and valuable [...]

]]> By: Ricardo http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-21579 Ricardo Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:09:05 +0000 http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-21579 Durante a próxima semana vou tentar que uma pequena organização adopte o Twitter. Eles são pessoas normais, quais early adopters :-) Durante a próxima semana vou tentar que uma pequena organização adopte o Twitter.
Eles são pessoas normais, quais early adopters :-)

]]> By: Pedro http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-21435 Pedro Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:42:21 +0000 http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-21435 Yeah, I particularly like the idea of subscription, meaning that you won't enforce people with the alert messaging, but if you decided that you'd want to receive them, then by all means they should get to you! ;) About simplex, yeah, I would love to see our national policies goes much more into open web services and public sharing of information rather than limiting itself to a mere informatization/simplification of the bureaucratic machine that rules us all in Portugal. Don't get me wrong, it's a great step forward, but having arrived late should prompt us to step ahead instead of just doing what others are doing! ;) Yeah, I particularly like the idea of subscription, meaning that you won’t enforce people with the alert messaging, but if you decided that you’d want to receive them, then by all means they should get to you! ;)

About simplex, yeah, I would love to see our national policies goes much more into open web services and public sharing of information rather than limiting itself to a mere informatization/simplification of the bureaucratic machine that rules us all in Portugal. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great step forward, but having arrived late should prompt us to step ahead instead of just doing what others are doing! ;)

]]> By: Daniel Barradas http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-21428 Daniel Barradas Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:59:03 +0000 http://blog.centopeia.com/2007/09/12/nationwide-alert-system-or-emergency-twittering/#comment-21428 In the states (http://twitter.com/LAFD) the firemen are using twitter to alert the population. So this isn't as impossible as it seems. My opinion is that everything that has a "Official Emergency Department" involves burocracy that may not be needed. But on the other hand I do agree that it would be best that someone would manage all this. One way to go would be national crisis center and local crisis centers (I think that this already exists?) You could get emergencies for the country or the zone you live in. Of course that if in portugal the firemen can't get along with red cross and with inem (and vice versa between all of them) it's a bit hard this will ever happen. And there are a lot of other institutions that don't get along between them. So the simple solution would be a twitter by institution. Maybe someone will have the vision and put this down on the Simplex 2.0 for a full integrated emergency system :D In the states (http://twitter.com/LAFD) the firemen are using twitter to alert the population. So this isn’t as impossible as it seems.

My opinion is that everything that has a “Official Emergency Department” involves burocracy that may not be needed. But on the other hand I do agree that it would be best that someone would manage all this.

One way to go would be national crisis center and local crisis centers (I think that this already exists?)

You could get emergencies for the country or the zone you live in.

Of course that if in portugal the firemen can’t get along with red cross and with inem (and vice versa between all of them) it’s a bit hard this will ever happen. And there are a lot of other institutions that don’t get along between them.

So the simple solution would be a twitter by institution.

Maybe someone will have the vision and put this down on the Simplex 2.0 for a full integrated emergency system :D

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