iText: The answer to disaster communication?

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Tue, 14 Jun 2011 7:00p.m.

iText: A simple, reliable way of exchanging information

iText: A simple, reliable way of exchanging information

One of the challenges in any disaster response is getting information to and from those affected.

But as we saw yet again in Christchurch yesterday, communication lines get overloaded, and what's left is an information vacuum.

What's needed is a simple, reliable way of exchanging information, one that can provide specific advice to people in need.

Reporter Lachlan Forsyth met with a Tauranga company that thinks it has the answer.

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15 Jun 2011 11:06a.m.

Alien wrote:

what i saw was both tv networks using mobile broadband to do skype interviews when both mobile networks had asked people to simply use text and only in an emergency, scum media. Toni, man up, there is worse off than you.

15 Jun 2011 10:24a.m.

Ken wrote:

Hey jared...Lake Karapiro Lodge could possibly use something like this...try and sell it to them..... He He

14 Jun 2011 10:49p.m.

Toni wrote:

Urgently awaiting for a responce from EQC Reguarding my property being contaminated by airborne asbestos through out the interior of my home,due to quake repair" WHY wont anyone contact me ?
From a gutted, angry,,ill health and cold person,not to mention being treated as if i dont excist,my home is left nothing like it once was. Please help Cambell to get this sorted, my highest reguards for you. Toni.

14 Jun 2011 08:34p.m.

Jared Dohrman wrote:

Feel free to contact us and ask any questions! jared.d@i-text.co.nz www.i-text.co.nz Thanks to all for your support so far!