Robust emergency communication infrastructure should be built-in, not opt-in.
of the population older than 6 uses a cellphone, and 91.6 percent of those users have a smartphone—but what about those who don’t?As I scrolled the App Store results for “earthquake” recently, attempting to sort through the options, I was struck by how bizarre and frustrating of a dilemma they present: How to know which is best, most trustworthy, most likely to keep you alive?And once you’ve finally chosen an app, sorting through the data it serves up is also difficult.
Should I give the app access to my live GPS location? As one of the developers of the U.S. app QuakeAlertto Chau Tu in Future Tense in 2018, “There’s a lot of inherent problems with mobile alerting,” such as “bottlenecks with personal notifications, people moving and not changing their location settings, or not having location services on.
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