Science and technology into Lushan earthquake relief backbone mobile Internet to generate new rescue approach

The sharp pain of the Wenchuan earthquake just calmed down, the earthquake again hit Sichuan Yaan. "I thought I was going to die," said a netizen who was nicknamed "Meaningless_" on April 20 morning 8:8. The epicenter must be in Lushan County! My house is broken! ”

The microblog was the earliest news from the quake zone. Subsequently, official news: April 20 8:02 A.M., Sichuan province Yaan Lushan County occurred 7 magnitude earthquake, focal depth 13 kilometers, the degree felt strongly. Earthquake Lushan County and surrounding area communication, power once large area interruption.

After a few 10 minutes, she again on the Micro-blog voice: "Still shaking!" Many people were smashed, the county house has been destroyed. Natural！ Many relatives are not connected, telephone impassability, life is fragile. ”

On the day of April 20, she posted 13 messages to the outside of her home through Weibo. Among them, 8 tweets were released before 10, and the text and picture information of the tweets became one of the few information available to the outside world within two hours of the Yaan quake.

Back in the Wenchuan earthquake 5 years ago, social media had not yet sprung up in China, and people were relying more on the Internet, television and radio. From the Wenchuan to the Yaan quake, five years ago, the rescue force based on social platforms such as micro-blogs and micro-letters was unthinkable in the quake, and now the power of the earthquake relief effort is commendable.

After the earthquake, science and technology enterprises immediately showed a unique role. Communications operators first time to advance to the disaster areas to repair communications lines, Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba and other internet companies to donate money the first time, and through their own scientific and technological means to assist in disaster relief.

In the disaster relief, in the praise of the same time, also exposed many problems, such as the Internet Enterprise tracing platform is different, information miscellaneous can not be screened to lead to inefficient. The two sides of social media are beginning to emerge. The openness and interoperability of information relies on the self-awareness of individual companies and lack of co-ordination, and the Internet companies ' coordination mechanisms based on disaster relief and the construction of open platforms or organizations are the next direction for people to work.

Mobile internet and mobile phone to generate new ways of rescue

China's mobile phone users reached 640 million in 2008, according to the Ministry of Statistics. By the end of 2012, that figure had reached 1.1 billion. In the second year after the Wenchuan earthquake, the Ministry issued 3G licences in 2009 for smartphones based on 3G, and smartphone users are now moving toward a 500 million figure. Previously, in China, 2.5G-based smartphone users had just reached 50 million in 2008.

There is no doubt that smartphone users, 10 times times more than 5 years, have witnessed the development of 3G and the popularity of smartphones, as well as the emergence of a group of mobile Internet applications represented by social applications. In contrast to the point-to-point distribution of telephone and text messages, social networking points and multiple-spread features make it more efficient and more widespread to advertise and share information.

The 2011 earthquake in Japan, the Internet and the value of mobile internet has begun to highlight, in the communications network into congestion, microblogging, SNS, smartphone applications are fully used to search for disaster relief. In the Sichuan Yaan earthquake, social media has become an important way to understand earthquake news, and it has also become a way for the people to maintain the relief order and the public opinion to supervise the relief work.

Five years of information release priority upside down, mainstream media to give way to Umebo, micro-mail, such as media platform. The operators and equipment companies have been using Weibo for the first time to inform them of progress, faster than television stations and portals, and even TV and portal information from Weibo, compared with Wenchuan, a network portal and vertical media.

In the official media can not be the first time to obtain information or experience, microblogging users spontaneously called for attention in disaster relief, such as to avoid major traffic arteries. Users also in micro-Bo and micro-trust friends in the circle released after the earthquake self-help measures, earthquake relief for other users to reference. Because has experienced Wenchuan, Yushu and so on the big earthquake, people's experience is more sufficient, the response earthquake disaster is more calm.

Meanwhile, in the micro-letter, a group of micro-letter public accounts opened. "Lushan Earthquake Relief Account" published in Sichuan Yaan Lushan earthquake, the latest situation, rescue information, tracing and news of Ping An. Sichuan Yaan Propaganda Department also opened "Sichuan Yaan" as the official platform for the earthquake information release. Sichuan satellite TV Yaan Hotline, CCTV comments on these public accounts and Sichuan satellite TV, CCTV news channels, such as the implementation of information linkage, the whole day rolling broadcast news relief tracing.

The value of the data is more prominent. After the earthquake, the phone can not be dialed, but there are many netizens through the micro-letter circle of friends to publish messages through the micro-letter of peace and exchange of information. "Micro-group, a variety of information exchange, including airport information, earthquake confirmation information, local information." "A netizen in the earthquake occurred after the departure to Chengdu, said."

The lack of co-ordination of sci-tech enterprises

While praising the innovation of science and technology enterprises, two days, Internet enterprises also gradually burst in the exchange of information problems.

On the search platform, Google (Weibo) based on the existing find-person function, the first to launch the tracing service. Baidu, 360, Sohu has been on-line tracing function. But because of the data is not coordinated, the information is mixed, truly through these platforms to find a few relatives.

On the morning of April 21, Zhou 袆 Tan Chen, due to inexperience, 360 missing platform also do not ideal, imperfect, then, he appealed, the Internet enterprises should put aside grievances and entanglements, suggestions 360, Baidu, Sohu and other companies dispatched working Group, work together, strive for each of the missing platform as soon as possible to achieve data sharing, And most likely to guarantee the authenticity of the data. "I hope this will become a regular and coordinated communication mechanism for Internet companies to confront natural disasters," he said. Zhou (Weibo) said.

For Zhou advocated the opening, Sogou CEO Wang Xiaoquan to respond that Sogou has and Sohu opened the missing data, play the search and media of their respective advantages, I hope Baidu and 360 joined. Sina Weibo also said that the microblogging open platform has liberalized the call to Sichuan data calls.

This action is commendable, but still rely on the internet company's consciousness. From the current situation, the current disaster relief technology enterprises are in a state of their own, the automatic use of their own business value and scientific and technological means of disaster relief, the science and technology industry has no similar open community or organizations to intervene, the lack of co-ordination between enterprises and synergies, resulting in unnecessary duplication of work and inefficient.

One person at an internet company said that the greatest significance of the open community or organization of science and Technology is to become a platform for more efficient integration of resources, simplifying the process of realizing value for the public service, avoiding wastage and improving the efficiency of disaster relief.

The problem is that because Internet companies have been fighting so frequently in recent years, it is hard to establish such institutions voluntarily. Besides, who is the right person to play this role?

"It is better to have a credible organization, it can be a government, the government can integrate various scientific and technological means to establish an open science and technology organization, but the integration process needs to be transparent, otherwise it will repeat the Red Cross credit loss of the mistakes." One person suggested.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)