LTYM - Security and utility

Letters to a Young Manager

Security and utility, #373
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Dear Adam,

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Japan Fujiyama earthquake: people finder app: Google had 100x the number of participants (409k versus 5k, see below)

From: Edward HAPP <edward.happ@ifrc.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:28:07 -0700
To: Gisli Olafsson <gisli.olafsson@nethope.org>
Subject: Re: NetHope - Japan Earthquake and Tsunami - Situation Report #5
Thx. Are the Ushahidi folks mapping ICT access in No. Japan? Seems like a natural. I noted that the Google people finder app has 420K+ entries compared to 100x less for ICRC app.

See http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en as of 22 Mar 11: 409,300 entries
Compare: http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/wfl/wfl_jap.nsf/Bottin!OpenView&lang=ENG (with estimated 4,680 names)

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