Cindy Lemcke-Hoong wrote: >Hello Taran, > >Good to lear another thing from you ... The Alert >Retrieval Cache concept. I have been away from telco >too long. It is new to me. > >But can this be set up in advance? What I mean is can >it be something just like 911 for example. It is there >and every knows it. When it is emergency they just >dial that number. In this case SMS the number. > This was the whole idea after the tsunami.
We just couldn't get 'buy in' from NGOs, or anyone it seemed. The Thai government communicated some interest at one point, but that dwindled a way because somehow they didn't see how it could be used, or something like that. The whole thing really gave me a good look at the entire system, actually, and the system for gaining support for something like this is quite sad. Now if we patented it and charged a lot of money for the idea, I expect people would be banging down our doors. Is that what it takes? ;-) > >Therefore can ARC be set up (for example SMS 767) by >all service providers such as SBC, AT&T in their >databases? To me it is always too late to do such a >thing when disaster strikes. It has to be organized >and managed in PERMANENT way where the pubic know >about it without having to be told or force to use >"threaten to throw them out of SuperDom". :-( > > Yup. Exactly. I feel like I've spent 9 months in stasis. It feels good to hear the idea repeated back to me. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: Georgetown, Guyana [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
