This platform will bring together organisations and government in the area of disaster management and help them keep track of information/ disaster indicators submitted by the community that lives in disaster risk areas using mobile phones.Such indicators will include disaster alert notifications such as sightings of cracks in mountains, Abnormally high water levels, unknown disease outbreaks, lost or missing people during disasters or large gatherings among others.
These indicators will enable them identify pending disasters, prevent duplications of efforts and encourage collaboration.
In Eastern Uganda, the community in Bududa is prone to landslides. The platform can help organisations and bodies such as the Red Cross, Ministry of disaster preparedness, UNHCR signed up to it to monitor mobile notifications like SMS from the Bududa community before and during disasters.
For example, a member of the Bududa community can send a notification after sighting a crack in the mountain to the platform, which can help the organisations signed up to recognise an impending disaster and plan for an evacuation.
In times of disasters, the organisations on the platform can share information on efforts they are undertaking. Members of the community can also send notifications about missing persons, broken infrastructure among others.
One can send sms notifications of indicators of pending disasters like high water levels, cracks in mountains among others to the platform.
He can also trigger the app in times of disaster and it will send a notification about his location to the platform. More to that, he can send an sms about missing persons and their last seen location.
The tool should give options for the person to categorise their impending situation. i.e The degree of danger that they might be facing.
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