Comments on: Ready.Gov, Red Cross Adding Mobile Phones To Basic Emergency Preparedness Supply Kit Recommendation

By: It’s Time To Get Business Far More Into Citizen Preparedness: A Win-Win-Win-Win Plan To Raise Public Readiness Using Incentives, Product Marketing Techniques

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:38:57 +0000

[...] outlets and supermarkets. The campaign would also involve corporate trade groups, such as the Wireless Foundation and the Business Roundtable, which have been very involved in getting their members involved in [...]

By: Fugate White House Briefing On Tenn. Flood Highlights Value Of Mobiles/PDA’s In Response & Need For Govt. To Add Them To Basic Kit, Educate Public On Their Uses During Disasters

Wed, 12 May 2010 13:36:28 +0000

[...] their lists of what every citizen should have for an emergency. Last year, FEMA and the Red Cross added it to their recommended list.Â (As I have witnessed first hand,Â including at a Red Cross relief shelter, having a phone charger [...]

By: Two Interesting Webinar Takeaways: CDC Believes Mobile Phones Help Bridge Not Broaden ‘Digital Divide’ On Public Health, Philly OEM ‘Following’ Hundreds Of Citizen Twitterers To Foster Two-Way Communications In Emergencies

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:54:04 +0000

[...] well off citizens at a disadvantage. That has, for example, kept many emergency management sites from adding a mobile phone (and backup power source) to their recommended list of supplies. But during the webinar Aikin made the point that the “divide” does not exist in mobile [...]

By: Postcard From This Weekend’s “CrisisCamp”: No Swimming, Hiking Or S’Mores, But Progress On Improving Emergency Preparedness/Response…And A Lot Of Fun Too

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:27:19 +0000

[...] (and other communications) companies make an effort along with the government and Red Cross to promote the safety uses of their devices to the public (during, for example, National Preparedness Month in [...]

By: Ready.Gov, Red Cross Adding Mobile Phones To Basic Emergency Preparedness Supply Kit Recommendation | Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis

Wed, 20 May 2009 15:59:25 +0000

[...] Ready.Gov, Red Cross Adding Mobile Phones To Basic Emergency Preparedness Supply Kit Recommendation The U.S. Department of Homeland Securityâ€™s Ready.Gov program and the American Red Cross are adding mobile phones and chargers to its recommendations for basic supplies in citizen emergency preparedness kits. This marks both a real and symbolic step for wireless communications and social media in public emergency preparedness and response. var addthis_pub = “”;Print this article [...]