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I can’t see, so when my radio was destroyed in the cyclone, I felt very isolated. Now that I have a radio, I feel like I can see!

A blind Monk in Burma who received a radio after cyclone Nargis

Poor information flow is undoubtedly the biggest source of dissatisfaction, anger and frustration among affected people

TEC Thematic Evaluation

If we understand what is going on, we can be patient

A man talking to the CDA Learning Project in Aceh

I would say that registration [of those in camps] would have been almost impossible without the support of the communications teams

CCCM Cluster Coordinator Haiti

“A community without a radio is worth nothing,”....“People have already realized here that without radio the region is dead"

Internews Humanitarian Information Service in Eastern Chad

Rahma Mohamed Ibed

“What they desperately needed was access to local information in a language they understood – could they go home? Where were the local services and who were all these foreigners who said they were coming to help?”

Mark Frohardt, at the time Internews’ Vice President for Africa

“We were trying to be a community safety valve – to sit the two groups down together and find out how they felt about the problems. If we couldn’t get them into the studio we would send the reporters out to the camps.”

Radio Absoun, Chad

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Using SMS to save lives in Sierra Leone The telecommunications industry and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have teamed up to use mobile phone...	lcorcoran	Fri, 2013-04-19 14:46
Code of Conduct for SMS Disaster Response During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2013, the Disaster Response Program from GSMA presented a code of conduct for SMS...	lcorcoran	Fri, 2013-03-22 22:37
AidLink by Souktel AidLink is an SMS and voice-based alerts, surveys, and text/call-in ‘hotline’ service that gets information to and from communities...	craig	Tue, 2013-01-08 06:39
Mobile Response to Gaza Crisis Save the Children, UN, CHF & Souktel Partner to Enhance Relief Efforts Souktel’s ‘AidLink’ mobile platform has been used in...	lcorcoran	Wed, 2012-12-12 14:37
Media and Technology Fair: 22-23 March The CDAC Network is convening a Media and Technology Fair in March 2012. You can register for live streaming of the event here. This will provide an...	craig	Fri, 2012-06-08 16:11
Beneficiary Communication and Accountability: Lessons learned and recommendations: Indonesia, Haiti, Pakistan Never before has communicating with those we work with been more essential. The combination of rapid urbanization and population growth, alongside...	craig	Wed, 2012-05-16 10:39
Souktel’s High-Volume Mobile Messaging Platform used to Save Lives in Gaza by Red Cross When conflict erupted in Gaza in late 2008, several key aid agencies contacted Souktel asking for help in reaching their staff and beneficiaries, who...	craig	Wed, 2012-04-04 13:25
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC): Two-Way SMS Communication with Disaster Affected People in Haiti On Tuesday 12 January 2010, at five o’clock in the afternoon, a massive earthquake struck Haiti. It left over 300,000 people dead and more than...	craig	Tue, 2012-04-03 17:29
Freedom Fone and LIRNEasia Case Study in Sri Lanka Freedom Fone [1] is a free and open source software development initiative of The Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe. Freedom Fone’s interactive...	craig	Tue, 2012-04-03 16:35
UNESCO Uses Souktel Online Messaging System Case Study Sending SMS Emergency Alerts to Families in Gaza In 2011, UNESCO began a series of efforts to improve its Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programme within the 1.5km ’buffer zone‘ of the...	craig	Tue, 2012-04-03 10:20

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