[chapter-delegates] Tsunami relief

[Irwan Effendi]

Dear Gene,

Dear Gene,

Lady luck seems to be in good mood. Yesterday, Indonesian Chapter was having
a discussion with University Trisakti and Linuxindo regarding setting up
small business incubator, and I met a government official working as team
leader in Agency for Environment Monitoring and Protection, a sub department
(www.bppt.go.id)
under the Ministry of Research and Technology.

He said that actually they already have equipments set up with buoys to
monitor sea water condition, which was deployed in 2000, but after 2 years,
they had to be retrieved back to the surface due to the lack of maintenance
budget. Now, in the aftershadow of tsunami, the House of Representative has
promised that they will allocate budget to redeploy and maintain those
equipments. I already give note to him about the email below, and he said it
will be very good if they can receive wireless equipments to set up alarm
system on the surface, so that warnings could reach the population faster
compared to through conventional broadcast media (radio, television, etc)

Would you like me to explore more about this with him?

Regards,

Irwan Effendi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Gaines" <gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com>
To: <chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: [chapter-delegates] Tsunami relief


> We have talked, on this list, about some effort to
> support the areas hit by the tsunami.
>
> I have a thought.
>
> The Wireless Communications Association (www.wcai.com)
> has a substantial effort underway to provide relief
> for the tsunami areas.  On January 13, about 50 people
> from WCA member companies and relief organizations
> met at breakfast to discuss what they might accomplish
> and how to go about it.
>
> Some of these people are donating funds, other stand
> ready to donate wireless products and training.
>
> Would some of our ISOC chapters in these area be interested
> in making a joint effort?
>
> WCA can raise the funds, obtain donated equipment,
> provide training and technical personnel.
>
> ISOC chapters can, working with their local governments
> and NGOs in their country, decide on infrastructure
> projects, select local people to be trained to install
> and operate the donated equipment, carry on local oversight
> for the length of the project.
>
> To summarize, WCA members provide the donated equipment
> and training to install it.  ISOC local chapters provide
> the labor and local management to plan, install and
> operate the equipment.
>
> Personally, I still like the ideas of equipping schools and
> their surrounding areas with free wireless broadband Internet
> access, possibly also the area surrounding some local
> government offices or town centers.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Gene Gaines
> Washington DC Chapter of ISOC, USA
>
>
>
> Background on the Wireless Communications Association:
>
> I know Andrew Kreig, the president of WCA.  Olga Roweena
> there is heading up their tsunami effort.  Excellent
> people.  See www.wcai.com
>
> WCA is a strong industry group, with a number of
> already-operating task forces and committees, for example:
>
> - Executive Committee
> - Engineering Committee
> - BWA (broadband wireless access) for Mobile Carriers
> - License Exempt Alliance
> - BRS/MDS 2.5 GHz WCA Leadership
> - Personal Broadband Alliance
> - FSO (free-space optical) Alliance
> - Rural Broadband Task Force
>
> WCA Board of Directors includes people from:
>
> - Airspan Networks
> - Intel Corporation
> - TAHO Ltda
> - Alvarion
> - Motorola Canopy
> - TeraGo Networks
> - AMA•TechTel Communications
> - Multidata Honduras
> - TESSCO Technologies
> - Aperto Networks
> - Navini Networks
> - W.A.T.C.H. TV
> - Axcera
> - NextNet Wireless, Inc.
> - Wayne State University
> - Clearwire Corporation
> - Pegasus Communications
> - George Mason University
> - Redline Communications
>
>
>
>
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