Dealing with disasters: Flood, famine and mobile phones.
Humanitarian relief is being transformed by technology. Once, when a disaster struck, big aid agencies would arrive and hand out grain, blankets, and medicine to victims who struggled to relief camps. Now, computer technicians are often the first people on the scene, setting up telephone networks...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 384; pp. 61 - 63 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
July 28 2007
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