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Messaging Is Not Enough
Multiple languages not addressed
Local information is not readily available
9-1-1 system overload
“Everything we’ve seen in our research suggests that
Americans want every channel of communication fired up when
there are emergencies,” says Lee Rainie, director of
the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
“They want horns sounding, radios blaring, TV screens
alight with the latest information, pagers buzzing, e-mails
sent, and Web pages updated on the fly. They don’t
want to have to rely on just one communications method and
they don’t want one channel to have special privileges over
others. They want each one of them used when all
hell is breaking loose.”
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project –
Survey with Federal Computer Week magazine
about emergencies and the Internet
August 31, 2003
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