Request from FEMA has come in to help set up networks on the East Coast. If you're around, please help out. And maybe my ulterior motive is getting some mesh networking infrastructure in place.<br><br>>><br><div>
Still in process of quantifying need, will find out today or Thursday when DRCs open up:</div><div><br></div><div>Quick white paper below: </div><div><br></div><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">We
need your assistance. I just had a discussion with Senior
Advisor on Disability Issues and FEMA’s Senior Tech
Advisor. We need your help to mobilize the community in the next couple
of days to help us reach disaster survivors. Additionally, this is
likely being done-if you know who, please get us in touch with these
individuals.</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Marcie’s
team is taking innovative steps to streamline communication efforts to
provide equal access to effective communication for people with
communication disabilities (people who are deaf or hard of hearing,
blind or have low vision, low literacy, speech disabilities). One of
these steps include sending 175 iPads to Disaster Recovery Centers.
These ipads will be used as a communication tool through visual aids
that allows disaster survivors to communicate with FEMA and others who
provide disaster services to meet survivors’ needs.</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">What we need?</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Point
of contact to mobilize volunteer IT communities to help us build
wireless at these locations that are outside the firewall so that we can
have these conversations with disaster survivors (wireless in these
locations may only be accessible to FEMA employees.) Marcie has
indicated the Ipads are 4G and need consistent and fast internet
connections. She is going to be providing the locations of where this
will need to be up and running.</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Can
we get your help to mobilize community assistance to get wireless up
and going to help disaster survivors with disabilities and others with
access and functional nedds.</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">What we are asking?</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Volunteer
IT community member(s) to go to the locations that Marcie will provide
in the next couple of days to set up wireless for this to occur.</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></p><br clear="all"><div>Willow Brugh // <a href="http://blog.bl00cyb.org/" target="_blank">willowbl00</a><br>
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