Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Early views of social media (e.g. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 11, 2020

About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. McCaw 2007. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6. Therefore, the world community must take action immediately." They also involve very high degrees of uncertainty. Mathews et al.

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