Network for Information Transmission during a Disaster

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The Global Health Disaster Network (GHDNet) was started to establish a network for people involved in disaster management. The GHDNet project consists of following three components.a) Setting up World wide Web (WWW) home pages : In July 1995, The GHDNet Home Page (hppt.//apollo.m.ehime-u.ac.jp/GHDNet./) was lanched as the first Japanese home page focused on disaster and emergency medicine. Moreover, we have helped to start more than twenty home pages for disaster related organizations and individuals. b) Networking people by mailing lists : We started several mailing lists to help people involved in disaster management to communicate with each other through the Internet. c) Networking people through medical associations : We maintain home pages for the following medical associations, The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine and The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. These home pages will be active as an efficient media to transmit urgent information not only for members of the associations but also for lay sitizenes in case of disasters.We conclude that it is the mission assigned to the us to help individuals and organizations to communicate with each other in case of disasters and that the Internet will be one of the most important media for information transmission in the next disaster.