What is it about?
This article presents the potential implementation of the early warning system based on text message alerts, in Poland, and in particular focusing on the decreasing of risks associated with natural disasters.
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Why is it important?
While early text messaging is essential to disaster communications and mitigation, the article further defines that means must be found to ensure equal access to those most vulnerable populations including all those, vulnerable and not, who do not have immediate access to text messaging systems.
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Text messages sent as a mandatory alert provide the possibility of reaching a larger number of people at risk of various dangers. Thanks to the fact that so many people possess devices which are capable of receiving text messages, implementing a system using this particular form of communication as a carrier will considerably increase the likelihood that those at risk will undertake responsible and deliberate actions when faced with the potential dangers of natural disasters and mass accidents.
Dr Krzysztof Goniewicz
Polish Air Force Academy
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This page is a summary of: Disaster Early Warning Systems: The Potential Role and Limitations of Emerging Text and Data Messaging Mitigation Capabilities, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, March 2019, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2018.171.
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