[gaia] disaster networks

Jon Crowcroft <Jon.Crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 20 December 2015 12:49 UTC

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I wrote a blog entry about this topic - some pointers in there may be useful (or not) - not much about the
internet, but background to what gives during and after disasters.
TL;DR "we're the government, and we're here to help" is worse than you thought.
http://paravirtualization.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/disasters-bring-out-best-and-worst-in.html