Network for Information Transmission during a Disaster

全球卫生灾害网络（GHDNet）的启动是为了为参与灾害管理的人员建立一个网络。GHDNet项目由以下三个部分组成。a)建立万维网（WWW）主页：1995年7月，GHDNet主页（hpp .//apollo.m.ehime-u.ac.jp/GHDNet./）推出，这是日本第一个以灾害和急救医学为重点的主页。此外，我们还帮助建立了20多个与灾害有关的组织和个人的主页。b)通过邮件列表建立人际关系：我们建立了几个邮件列表，帮助参与灾难管理的人们通过互联网相互交流。c)通过医学协会建立人际网络：我们为以下医学协会维护主页：世界灾害和急诊医学协会和日本急性医学协会。这些主页将作为一种有效的媒介积极发挥作用，在发生灾害时不仅向协会成员，而且向非专业人士传递紧急信息。我们认为，在灾难发生时，帮助个人和组织相互沟通是我们的使命，而互联网将是下一次灾难中最重要的信息传播媒介之一。

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.