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El Salvador: Wireless Security, Helping Reduce Crime

Fisher Friend

Wireless Reach, in collaboration with RTI International, United States Agency for International Development, the Municipality of Santa Tecla and the National Civilian Police, is supporting the development and implementation of Seguridad Inalámbrica (Wireless Security), a new system using 3G technology to collect and share vital crime information in real time.

Seguridad Inalámbrica provides law enforcement and municipal government personnel with mobile phones and web-based applications to report and map the location of crime incidents as they occur. The solution aims to improve data collection, communication and collaboration among the law enforcement agencies in an effort to develop effective programs to reduce crime.

With this public-private project, the partners hope to improve the public safety of citizens in the Municipality of Santa Tecla and to eventually expand this new crime reduction solution to other municipalities in El Salvador.

PARTNERS

  • Municipality of Santa Tecla
  • National Civilian Police
  • United States Agency for International Development
  • RTI International

      

India: Fisher Friend, Bringing Helpful Information to Rural Fishermen

Fisher Friend

In 2007, fishermen in the tsunami-affected Tamil Nadu region of India were provided mobile phones with a BREW® application called Fisher Friend, which gave them instant access to helpful information such as weather conditions, where they can and cannot fish and market prices — all in their local language. Today the application is commercially available on Tata’s CDMA network for approximately US$.60/month. Local fishermen reported that the application has made them more efficient, feel safer in the water and has improved their daily revenue.

The program is the result of a collaboration with M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that is instrumental in providing information about the fishing communities; Tata Teleservices; Astute Systems Technology, the BREW developer; and Wireless Reach.

PARTNERS

  • Astute Systems Technology
  • M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
  • Tata Teleservices

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

      

ITU: Providing Disaster Relief Telecommunications Services

ITU

Wireless Reach donated a Qualcomm Deployable Base Station (QDBS) to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to improve emergency communications for disaster preparedness and to coordinate relief activities in the aftermath of disasters. The base station was deployed in Haiti in January when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake -- the most powerful to hit Haiti in a century – struck. The base station allows relief organizations to communicate and coordinate with each other, when there is no other means of telecommunications or limited communication links. Based on 3G technology, the QDBS is a compact, quickly deployable and easy to operate mobile solution with 50 phones providing first-responder communications. Following its deployment in Haiti, the QDBS will be housed at the ITU’s headquarters in Geneva until it is deployed again in response to future disasters in other countries.

PARTNERS

  • International Telecommunication Union

      
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