Author: Lutz Frommberger

What kind of pictographs are suitable to be used for natural disaster alerting? To find out, we were addressing marginalized communities with reading and writing problems in Sri Lanka and the Philippines last month which he have reported on before. Before we go back for a thorough comprehension study in May, we used the visits…

After reaching out to low-literate communities in rural and urban Sri Lanka, we addressed another marginalized group in the Philippines: Deaf people. According to UNESCAP, people with disabilities have a 400% higher risk to die in hazard situations. One reason that holds especially for deaf people is the restricted access to formal education, which often…

Last year, we approached a group of disaster communication experts at the 2016 CAP Implementation Workshop in Bangkok, about 60 people with a profession related to disaster management. We wanted to know how they think about pictograph based communication, what their ideas are, and how they understand pictographs in their own field of expertise. Within…

30% of the Asian and Sub-Saharan populations are low-literate – that means, we cannot really reach them through textual messages. In the case of disaster communication, we clearly do not want to have those people excluded. Pictographs come into mind to be used to communicate non-textually. But how should these pictographs look like? How can…