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T-Mobile's Emergency Response Team

Disaster Zone Podcast

When asked, emergency managers will unfailingly say that the first critical infrastructure that needs to be restored after a disaster is communications. In this podcast I interview two T-Mobile subject matter experts, Rodney Cooper and Casey Muilenburg who, along with others, are responsible for the T-Mobile Emergency Response Team (ERT).

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Book Review: Disaster Management and Information Technology

Recovery Diva

Book Review: Disaster Management and Information Technology: Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters. Content : A comprehensive guide to the multifaceted world of disaster management, seamlessly integrated with modern technology. Editors: Hans Jochen Scholl, Eric E. Holdeman, F. Kees Boersma.

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Keith Krach on Technology and Economic Diplomacy

Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast we have a wide ranging discussion about a variety of technologies, to include how the competition with China and their business practices, along with their unethical approach to the treatment of their own citizens needs to be taken into account as we move forward. This episode is sponsored by Unearth.

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Integrating Technology into Rapid Damage Assessment and Recovery

Disaster Zone Podcast

Having just moved to consulting, her focus is now on helping organizations grow and transform by adopting improved business processes and finding new ways of working, enabled by technology investments. This episode is sponsored by Unearth. This episode is sponsored by Unearth.

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Unlocking effective emergency response

everbridge

By integrating E911 technology with enhanced notification and alerting software, organizations can ensure 100% compliance while protecting their people. These solutions help to define the “who, when, and where” during emergency situations and automatically communicate this information to employees.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

It is also unrealistic to imagine that emerging technology in any of its forms will save us from disaster. Remember the words of Professor Henry Quarantelli in 1997: "Technology leads a double life, he wrote, that which its makers intended and that which they did not intend."

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The Future of Technology in Emergency Response and Management

Business Continuity Today

Emergency Management needs improvement to meet modern needs. With advancing technology, it can be harnessed and created specifically for emergency management and disaster response. With advancing technology, it can be harnessed and created specifically for emergency management and disaster response.