911 Moving To P2P
BBC – Cool idea at the University of Maryland –
“The 911 telephone system functions effectively when there are traffic accidents, health emergencies or small fires, but when large numbers of people are involved it does not handle the capacity,” said Professor Shneiderman.
Citizens could leave text, video and photos on the site of emergencies, natural disasters and terror attacks.
“Citizen reporters would report to a centralised authority who will take care of emergency response coordination and allocate scarce resources of police fire and medical services,” said Professor Shneiderman.
Moving to community based resiliency is great – but if we take on more of the burden we should be able to keep, on a per-contribution basis, a portion of our payment (taxes) right?
-Shlok
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