Blog Share- powerful applications Google and Facebook to Nepal. Facebook and Google are quite responsive to assist disaster victims with application technology. Facebook has a Safety Check, while Google has a Person Finder.
Arjun Vatsa, a 27-year-old businessman panic when the quake hit Nepal know. He was worried about dozens of fellow students in India who now lives in Nepal. He went into WhatsApp group to look for information. Then check also to Facebook.
Soon, an application called Safety Check appear in his Facebook news feed. This application can identify a friend who is likely to be in the affected area. This information is retrieved based on data location and profile information.
When the application was developed, all users involved and questioned contacts to renew his status known to be associated. This information is important to notify each other that their condition is fine. This application can also be used to check other users.
"When a person marks himself has 'safe', it will automatically appear in the notification to me. It was really very helpful. This is another way to utilize social media. In the case of a disaster, something like this is very useful," said Vatsa, such as quoted by the NY Times, Tuesday, April 28, 2015.
According to data from Facebook, millions of users in Nepal, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh have used this service and indicates themselves safe from disaster. Their status has also been distributed to tens of millions of other users.
The same thing is done by Google. But if it involves Facebook users to exchange information, Google chose to cooperate with the Red Cross to collect data related to the names of people who are in the affected areas.
Until Monday, April 27, 2015, afternoon, a list compiled by the International Committee of the Red Cross said 1,385 people status as 'missing'. While the other 241 were listed as 'safe and still alive'. The site also allows users to input or search for data and information.
Google said that until now the Person Finder has been tracking the data about 6,300 people. Anyone can enter a person's name, biographical information and even photos into Google's database.
The database can be accessed online or by sending an SMS containing the name of the person sought to certain phone numbers. Use of this sms to centralize information so that users do not need to look for other sources.
Person Finder actually introduced since 2010 after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. This application is then used again in the next year to help during the earthquake in Japan.
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