Second Tampere Conference on Disaster Communications: Improving disaster preparedness and response

摘要

Communication links are almost always disabled and disrupted during the first hours of natural disasters. This loss of communications is in itself a disaster. Very quickly, the areas hit by a disaster find themselves cut off. For relief operations, this is an equation with several unknowns. When relief workers arrive on the scene, there is an urgency to establish effective and comprehensive communication links between the affected area, national disaster response facilities, and with the larger international community.