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Social network like Twitter is a communication channel that can enable users to broadcast their information, activities, and opinion through brief text updates. Suicide is a serious mental health problem that demands our attention, and to control and prevent it is not an easy task. With the high rate of people dying from suicide, the speed of information disseminated through Twitter should be an advantage...
A novel communication system for use by all first responders in a given disaster response activity is described. The system is based primarily on SMS messaging technologies and either indigenous mobile phone service providers or mobile phone service brought in via cellular-on-wheels (COWs), UAVs, rapidly deployed towers, etc. End users use either their own cell phones, running a native SMS application,...
Collaboration between non-profit organizations and governmental sectors of all levels in public crisis will exert a great influence on the performance of public crisis management. Through referring to foreign appraisal pattern for collaborative performance between organizations and sampling Oxfam Hong Kong for their performance in 5.12 earthquakes, this paper has conducted a genuine survey of collaboration...
A viable business model is key for the financial and operational sustainability of community broadband network. Using the public-private-partnership approach, stakeholder analysis and the business model canvas tool, we demonstrate a business model that can guarantee financial and operational sustainability of community networks in rural developing regions. The business model has been validated in...
The chief task of public crisis prevention is to forestall crisis and reduce losses. As an important part of public governance, non-government organizations should play an active part in the prevention of public crisis in combination with their own advantages. The paper is intended to make explorations from the advantages and limitations of non-governmental organizations' participation in public crisis...
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