DARPA's Strong Angel II
The San Jose Mercury News' Dan Gillmor has an interesting piece on DARPA's "Strong Angel II", a program aimed at developing techniques for "critical information management within austere environments." From the article:
KONA, HAWAII - They were soldiers and sailors, doctors and relief workers, technologists and managers. Over the course of a few days, they transformed a barren lava bed into a cutting-edge test bed of communications and collaboration.
Their overarching goal, in a project dubbed ``Strong Angel II'' (http://strongangel.telascience.org) was humanitarian: to help create a way for military and civilian disaster-relief people to deal more efficiently with each other -- and with the people who need assistance -- in the turmoil that follows catastrophes.
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Posted by PeterHarsha at July 26, 2004 10:06 PM
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