Computer Networks and Volunteers

See also: [Parent page (The Earthquake Page)], [Kanada's home page in English], [Kanada's home page in Japanese].

Contents

• InterVnet
• Organizations, including JCA - Japan Computer Access, Information Volunteer Group (c/o Shimizu), Shinsai-Net, IVN -- The Inter Volunteer Network, VAG and VAC -- Volunteer Assist Group / Center, Quake-VG and Other Organizations
• Roles of Computer Network, including Usefulness of PC Network and Proposal for 811 Emergency Communications
• Miscellaneous Information

InterVnet

Organizations

Indices and General Information

• NGO and NPO, including APC and JCA

Shinsai-Net (?) -- Networks Organized by the Governments

• PC Communication Volunteer Network by MPT (in Japanese)
  • Proposal
  • Introduction and the Structure
  • MPT Earthquake Home Page
• Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake Network

IVN -- The Inter Volunteer Network

• What is IVN?
  • Summary (in Japanese, originally on Nifty-Serve, and forwarded to fj.misc, etc.)
  • IVN - Kobe University
• IVN Member List
• Proceeding (in Japanese, posted to fj.misc, etc.)
• An Opinion on the IVN by T. Funabashi (from Kobe U. Volunteer Group ML)

Information Volunteer Group (c/o Shimizu (kshimz@starnet.ad.jp))

• The Information Volunteer Group collects information in refuge and publish in Nifty-Serve (a PC network) (in Japanese)
• The collected information can be accessed through the home page, or by FTP. (Note that this information is only for supporting the refugees.)
  • A Mirror

VAG and VAC -- Volunteer Assist Group / Center

• VAG WWW Server
• VAG Gopher Server
• VAG FTP Server
• Introduction
• Call for Volunteers: Original textual version and Hypertext version (not yet completed)
• A Brief Introduction to VAG Mailing List
• Software and Database
  • CUCUM -- ``インターＶの「生活情報」を日本語ＡＷＫにてレコード化する スクリプト「CUCUM」の LHA による自己解凍形式アーカイブ． 重富さん＠ＶＡＧの作品「CCM0101A.LZH」の自己解凍化です.'' (9 kB)
  • KobeAid -- ``青木さん＠繋馬さんの同僚 の作品で，Windows の HELPファイル 形式で公的機関からのお知らせを纏めたもの.'' (560 kB)
• Onfy for VAG Members: U, M -- accessible only locally

Quake-VG

• Quake-VG is the Kobe University Information Volunteer Mailing List.
• Miscellaneous Information at Kobe University
• Kobe University Network Use Commettee
• East Nada Volunteer Network

WNN -- World NGO Network

• World NGO Network Homepage (in Japanese)
• Internet-centered Volunteer Project by WNN Information Volunteer Group
• Information Volunteer Group (c/o Mizuno)
  • This Information Volunteer Group (by Mizuno at Osaka University) used Internet for communication.
  • Beginning of IVG, in ``Great Hanshin Earthquake and Information Technology'' by Shimojo
• A News Article By Mizuno
• YMCA Call for Information Volunteers

Other Organizations

• Call for Volunteer on Inputting Atlas Mate Data for the Maps (in Japanese)
• The Earthquake-related BBS
  • A List
  • Another List
  • A PC Net at Nishinomiya
  • ?

Roles of Computer Network

Usefulness of PC Network

• How Useful was the PC Communications? from the South Pole Network
• South Pole Network 2/18
• A ML/News Article by Y. Yamamoto -- PCN is useless! (tnn.interv.misc)
• A ML Article

Proposal for 811 Emergency Communications

• ``A major lesson from Kobe is that computer networks and bulletin boards can be much more effective than voice phone networks [...]. They are also more effective than radio and television [...]''
• ``One of the most interesting things to happen in Kobe was the emergence of "information volunteers."''
• ``The 811 system [...] a genuine interactive and horizontal communications medium connecting citizens, their friends and relatives, and rescue efforts.''
• A Related Message

Mailing Lists Related to (Earthquake) Volunteers

• Working MLs
  1. earth
  2. quake
  3. quake-vg@kobe-u.ac.jp
  4. Related to WNN
     • ngo@center.osaka-u.ac.jp
     • ngo-info-help@center.osaka-u.ac.jp
  5. Related to Hattori's ``From Kobe''
     • From-Kobe@cs.ricoh.co.jp
     • From-Kobe-d@cs.ricoh.co.jp
  6. Related to VAG
     • vag@elist.mei.co.jp
     • vag-staff@elist.mei.co.jp
  7. ml-quake
  8. fukko
  9. Related to InterVnet
     • www@libra.jaed.or.jp: Volunteers that makes InterVnet WWW pages.
  10. vuser
  11. kbvol