Investigation

For our project surrounding "disasters, and how technology can help us communicate with people affected by them", we have to write paragraphs answering the following questions.

1. Why is communication so important during an emergency?
2. What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters e.g Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami?
3. What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?
4. What information can be created before the emergency?
5. What hardware and software is required to be able to communicate online?
   

Answering these questions will provide me and the other students a wealth of information and thus give us a basic idea on how to answer our guiding question;

"How can I make use of established and emerging WWW tools to support online publication? What are the best tools to use for effective communication online? How can the Internet be used to help a community prepare for and survive a disaster?"