Role of ICT in Yolanda Finder

Google ha launched a Person Finder that allows individuals to post messages and search for the status of family and friends affected by the disaster.

On the 8th day of November year 2013, people are living their lives peacefully until a massive tragedy shook their innocent lives.

Typhoon Haiyan, also known as typhoon Yolanda was one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded in the world history. It killed a total number of 6,300 people in the Philippines.

The vast use of ICT had a great impact in terms of informing others on what is happening during the calamity. The typhoon is talked about on social networking sites and the storm became a trend world wide, dubbing that typhoon Yolanda is one of the strongest typhoons in world history.

Google Person Finder is an open source web application that provides a message board for survivors, family, and loved ones affected by a natural disaster to post and search for information about each others status and updates. It was first created by Google enginers in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

This web application helped thousands of people affected by the typhoon. It is also easy to use just have an access on the internet or send a message on the numbers indicated on the website.

ICT can be a pathway to get access to information, regardless of its content. It improved our way of living, as well as the way we respond with disaster such as Typhoon Yolanda.

ICT helped thousands of people. If it weren't for this innovation, it would be so hard to keep in touch with everyone and everything in the planet. And that is the role of ICT in recent history such as Typhoon Yolanda.

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