Smart phones for disaster preparedness
Recently, Becky Koch, Agriculture Communication Director at North Dakota State University (NDSU) has been recognised as a White House Champion of change in community resilience and preparedness. She with her colleagues has developed two very useful smart phone applications — Winter Survival Kit for Android and iOS, and Disaster Recovery Log for Androids. These two phone applications have greatly helped the residents of North Dakota to get educated on disaster preparedness, post-flood recovery, etc.
While sincerely appreciating the accomplishment of Becky Koch, I would request her to work on developing easy smart phone applications to face the negative impacts of climate change on agriculture particularly in developing countries like Bangladesh having large coastal areas and where people are experiencing the negative impacts of climate change.
Professor M Zahidul Haque
Dean, Faculty of Agriculture
SAU, Dhaka
