Push Messaging Big Topic at CAP Implementation Workshop
At the annual CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) Implementation Workshop in Rome, many speakers talked about how to disseminate messages on the last mile to end users. As Elyza Jones of […]
Lutz Frommberger
Do Hazard Pictographs need Context?
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 […]
Pictograph-based Disaster Communication with Deaf Communities
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 […]
“Help, Pirates!” – Insights from a Disaster Communication Exercise with Experts
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 […]
Work has started on Mobile Disaster Pictographs
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 […]