Using mobile phone technologies for Disaster Risk Management – some reflections from the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) programme

Authors: Emma Bee (British Geological Survey), Mirianna Budimir (Practical Action UK) and Jonathan Paul (Royal Holloway University). Approximately 93% of the global population has access to a mobile broadband network 1. Mobile phone ownership has also increased rapidly, with global smartphone connections doubling in just five years and rising sixfold in South Asia 2. Whilst […]