C-DOT product useful for saving lives through timely Alerts during earthquake, Tsunami, says Ministry
Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) says its project-product “Mobile-enabled Disaster Resilience through Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerting” has been qualified for the WSIS Prizes 2024 in the category of “Benefits in all aspects of life – E-environment”, amongst 1000+ global entries for WSIS Prize 2024.
It is an indigenously developed end-to-end state-of-the-art solution for instant delivery of critical life-saving emergency information on mobile phones through cellular telecom networks in a broadcast mode https://www.itu.int/ , Ministry of Communications said on 23 Mar 2024.
It enables message presentation on handsets with distinct tone and pop-up notification, thus providing effective alerting by grabbing user attention in critical situations on a real time basis.
Apart from disaster and emergency information, this solution is also suited for various other use cases as well that are mentioned below:
Government directives
Law and Order
Defence and strategies sector
Industrial Sector
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“This solution is very useful in saving lives for disseminating timely Alerts, in disasters like earthquake, lightening, Tsunami etc where immediate attention is utmost important,” said the Ministry https://www.mci.gov.sg/ of its unit C-DOT’s latest innovation.
WSIS, or the World Summit on the Information Society https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/ , is a series of conferences organised by United Nations (UN) and co-hosted by the International Telecommunication Unio (ITU) and the Swiss confederation which focuses on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and its impact on society.
The WSIS process (conferences) aims to bridge the digital divide and promote the use of ICTs for social and economic development through a structured and inclusive approach at the national, regional and international levels.
Process for submission of WSIS-related projects started from 10 Oct 2023 to 15 Feb 2024, which was followed by Nomination Phase (16 Feb to 10 Mar 2024) where C-DOT’s project got qualified for the next round out of 1,000+ projects.
Along with C-DOT’s “Mobile-enabled Disaster Resilience through Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerting” system there are other products / solutions that have been qualified in the mentioned category, and after voting process, the project with high number of votes will move to the next round.
“Given the solution can be used for saving lives, C-DOT requests for casting the vote to support so that our indigenous Make in India solution advances to the next round,” the Ministry said. fiinews.com
