Devastating Floods. One hope in front of every lost hope.
I do not know how to save hopes of people in current situation. But as a technology and social entrepreneur, I have read hundreds of case studies and talks that a SMS is a ray of hope and decided to setup SMS based incident reporting.
I want to bring first line of incident reporting live for millions of people in Pakistan. This requires technology, spreading the right word to millions, building team, Logistics, resources and coordinating all the incident reporting.
The last week was spent on the technology front. So, after sleepless nights, power shortages, worst news written on faces everywhere, the effort continued. With the help of few friends, I got access to short code 3441 in Pakistan. Next the Ushahidi was installed at pakrelief.crowdmap.com. Then, the short code integration was done. And the technology milestone is achieved.
Then, I started carefully spreading the message to select forums and people about the SMS and incident reporting platform, people from all over the world are joining us that is bringing a hope on a SMS message.
Team building is on way and spreading the message to millions of flood affected people is next big challenge. Remember, the mission is to save one hope by one SMS message at 3441.
The message to spread i simple.
Go to write a message Type FL “Your needs/ situation/emergency” and send it to 3441.
One hope will be saved, if this imessage prepoerly understood,mapped by the humanitarion agencies, people or anyone in the world looking to help flood affactees in Pakistan.
You can also join us in the worst flooding in Pakistan. Just visit pakrelief.crowdmap.com and see what impact we can bring together by beign a team member, help in logistics or anything else.
Let’s try to save one hope with one sms message.
Credits:
Ushahidi, Ushahidi team for getting pakrelief.crowdmap.com up.
The SMS infrastructure is provided by Digitania Pakistan.
I am associated with TED conferences as a Senior Fellow. If you attend TED conference and watch TED talks online, then there are more chances that you will be a change agent in the world. I am technology and social entrepreneur from Pakistan and is associated as founder with Cogilent Solutions and BrightSpyre.com
