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Sunday, September 11, 2005
Tech skills as survival skills - Robert Bole - Blue Oregon
I have been listening to an odd undercurrent in the dissection of the Hurricane Katrina disaster: the importance of having 'digital age' skills in surviving disasters. Thursday on NPR there was a story that struck me as central to the notion that the difference between successfully negotiating the aftermath of a disaster can rest on your ability to use the Internet to find help, answer questions and get services. The story centered on the frustration of evacuees in Houston in trying to apply for services over the past several days. After waiting in line for many hours, starting at 5:00 am, a Red Cross worker would invariably come out and tell everyone that they could not process any more applications today, come back tomorrow, but that anybody could submit an application by going to www, etc. The reporter described the general confusion of many of the evacuees who had no idea what 'www' meant in the first place. Since they did not know how to use a computer, let alone the Internet, they were back in line the next day, and the next.
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