[Ieprep] IAA follow-up
Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere (or in Portland Maine) <brunner@nic-naa.net> Fri, 07 October 2005 15:31 UTC
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Oki all, Off list someone was kind enough to provide a pointer to the original IAA contributor to the WG. Thanks. A Fench blogger (one of Le Monde's contributors) was kind enough to point out that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCRC) just published (5 October) the 13th edition (2005) of the World Disasters Report. People need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods and resources. It may be the only form of disaster preparedness that the most vulnerable can afford. The right kind of information leads to a deeper understanding of needs and ways to respond. The wrong information can lead to inappropriate, even dangerous interventions. Information bestows power. Lack of information can make people victims of disaster. Do aid organizations use information to accumulate power for themselves or to empower others? The report calls on agencies to focus less on gathering information for their own needs and more on exchanging information with the people they seek to support. The quote from the blub is spot-on, we're observing "accumulation of power" by governmental and non-governmental organizations (the Eastern Regional BIA is an interesting exception to this, being an effective aid provider), and the importance of information to people usually conceptualized as "post-data-and-voice". So I'll pursue this item, but it has nothing to do with transport (any useful spec should be transport-independent), as someone noted, and nothing to do with ETS or priority mechanisms for particular kinds of transport, as others have noted, on ieprep. Eric P.S. Anyone with discretionary budget ($30) can order this reference and save themselves the bother of reading it by having it delivered to me. The URL is http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2005/order.asp (english). _______________________________________________ Ieprep mailing list Ieprep@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ieprep
- [Ieprep] IAA follow-up Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere (or in Portland Maine)