The whole world can be tracked and shared in near real time
Ryan Hall: They May 26, 2024 Tornado Outbreak, As It Happened…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fITfYtCMd98
After the fact is is too jerky to follow. In Texas south of Austin my family lost cars and house windows to softball sized hail. In Houston large trees and power to wind. I do not see a review and summary. Keep your hand off the mouse and leave it showing the larger picture. Have a separate screen for detail. You can actually put two mice on one computer. Follow and show the bigger picture and then monitor where there are dangers pending. Get people to record individual cities and areas, and work as a group so there is a clear set of live feeds for any place at risk. Keep in mind the after reports and analyses. Write down your methods and tools and best practices, share with cities for floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, cyclones, tornadoes, lightning, hail and other things. Make it so every city can monitor and protect itself, including extreme high temperatures, flooding rains, dust storms, fires, smoke, earthquakes, hail, snow, power failures, communication blackouts, internet blackouts.
Make it global. There are countries that can receive Internet but no local weather or live crisis weather reporting. In the US there are dozens of languages people use at home. Spanish for sure but lots of others. Think about ways to help older people at home, schools and retirement communities, people at work. You can share crop reports, pests. When people work together, they can work together globally. There are about 5.2 Billion people with some access to the Internet and 8.1 Billion overall.
Lots more severe weather, but covid could have used a global open reporting system to pool reports for ordinary people. When you gather, records, report, analyze and help, there are groups to help with funding often. There are armed conflicts in dozens of countries where there are more than 100 Million displaced people trying to live. It is simply technology, global coordination, languages, cooperation, caring and sharing. It is not hard, just takes care and dedication. There are diseases, droughts, crop failures, dust storms, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes.
Many places the local people can track themselves but if you learn and teach, and help others to share what they learn, it can be global for things that happen. Jobs, needs, people offering to help, people needing help. it is not impossible, it is not hard once you do a few. One life is worth about $10 Million these days. Famine is still happening – mostly from armed conflicts. Which can be tracked and warnings given in many cases. Keep the UN honest. Search for Famine Early Warning System that I set up in the 1980’s. If it was possible then, certainly now.
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Best wishes. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
