It's the live blog like you've never seen it before. Une nouvelle idée. An online reporting team within a blog. Filtering through true news. Correspondents around the globe. Separating le faux from le vrai. Employing social media mavens & photojournalists, videographers, skilled investigative reporters & subject matter experts. A million people strong. Select yet all encompassing. Profoundly exact. Piercingly direct. Stereoscopic. Constantly evolving. Percolating and seamless. Adept at connecting the quantum particular event with the unified theory of everything.
Socially conscious & culturally sensitive. Authentic. No gimmicks, no ads. Interactive. Inspirational. Intrinsically motivating.
Imagine such a group humming on DK4?
Voici DeepKos.
Flash forward with me.
Dhaka, Bangladesh. March 14, 2012. Huge Cyclone Approaches Bangladesh
A Bangladesh women attends COP16 to discuss her country's high vulnerability to climate change.
As initial warnings radiate round the world, a small, highly syncopated and copacetic rapid response team revs up for action. Within minutes, they are tracking the storm on Google Earth. Connecting live with in-country sources. Monitoring WunderCam. DMing MSF Bangladesh. Publishing emergency numbers in Dhaka (Ambulance=199, Fire=9 555 555, Police=866 551-3).
What did I leave out? The Red Crescent? Rescue flotillas forming en masse from nearby international tankers and ships at sea? Aircraft? The UN? Morse Code and ham radios? A list of neighboring countries ready and willing to take in the displaced? All Covered.
Within ten minutes -- with templates at the ready -- a DeepKos MotherShip launches, airtight yet ever-pliant, bundling the latest news and livefeeds, steaming video from the Bay of Bengal, hosting phone interviews with local soon-to-be climate refugees. Turning you on to reliable, well-vetted tweet & RSS feeds, to Facebook and YouTube channels. The BBC. AJ Live. Reuters. The first 'ship' is ready with preliminary tips on how you can help out and how those impacted can find help.
The first five child diaries are already formatted. Ready to roll out.
No, this is no underground parking garage news source. It's live. Vibrant. Transparent. In your face. Authentic. Uncensored. Expert Pulitzer Prize quality journalism.
DeepKos is a small select team, manned 24x7 by content sleuths, news junkies, hi-tech virtuosos, data analysts, and SMEs.
In this first scenario, Mothership 1 provides background on Bangladesh, along with info to help ensure an uninterrupted flow of information into and out of the country. The Mothership invites you in. Calls on you to share your sources. To Act.
A snippet of what would be ready to go:
• IFRC Bangladesh Contacts & TweetFeed
• UNHCR
• Oxfam Bangladesh and followed by their Bangladesh Media and Communication Coordinator Mubashardhaka
•Bangladesh Online News
•Bangladesh Facebook
• Tweetfeeds from Twitter Bangladesh, with pre-selected connections with, for example, BRiTTO1st, Fuadhasaan , Dr. .H. _Sarja
• MSF Bangladesh
Relevant information includes knowledge that barriers against incoming flood waters only exist in the southern regions of the country, post disaster food security and health issues, access to in-country relief agencies, locations of high land refugee sites as well as storm shelters within affected areas, and connections with existing early warning systems.
A DeepKos writer is crunching out the opening salvo of an in-depth overview of the region's history, gleaned from research which includes info from Bangladesh's UNFCCC NAPA Implementation, projections on the number of potential climate refugees, and an overview of Bangladesh's history in coping with previous extreme weather events. The writer possesses a keen understanding of other cultural, geographic, financial and environmental factors. Like the native inherent tendency to love one's neighbor as oneself and tenacious ties to cultural habits, a tenacity which has hindered efforts to produce a strain of rice that can survive under water so it can still be harvested even when submerged by floods.
BANGLADESH has been identified as one of the countries to be worst affected by climate change for globally polluting activities of the rich and developed countries . From this recognition - and actions in fulfillment of those promises are entirely different things here -- promises have come from such countries that they would be "willing" to lend substantial resources to Bangladesh as compensation. The real challenge for Bangladesh lies here in making liaison with the donor countries and organizations in order to manage to obtain any such resources free of cost and use the same in time in optimum fashion to maximize benefits. Link
The phenomenon of storm surges in the Bay of Bengal is examined along with the primary reasons for the severity of storm surges in Bangladesh. ... With the use of a mathematical model developed for the simulation of storm surges along the Bangladesh coast; various scenarios of storm surges are developed. Using lower and upper bounds of sea surface temperature rise of 2 and 4°C and of sea level rise of 0.3 and 1.0 m (according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change standard), the model simulates the maximum possible surges that are likely to occur under these conditions. (link )
At least one member is multilingual and a seasoned world traveler, with a wide range of at-the-ready connections covering every foreseeable contingency. A 'managing editor' (today's 'content curator') ensures perfect pitch . There are shifts for round-the-clock anchors, a seasoned storm tracker, a cross cultural social networking maven, a genius geek, and a crisis mapper familiar with early rapid warning systems, emergency citizen response teams, and platforms like Ushahidi. This team member is as fluent in FreedomBox as in jerry-rigged tin can Waveguide WiFi Antennas.
Naturellement, it goes without saying that we're connected with emerging soon-to-be-internationally-acclaimed photojournalists.
So. Stay tuned. The hive is under construction, with lines cyber-casted into both virtual and real life pools. The countdown has begun, with launch scheduled when all systems are go.
Be prepared. You're gonna love this space.
DeepKos. It's just a click away.
Photo credits
Entropy ≥ Memory . Creativity ² By jef safi
Bangladesh Women by Deborah Phelan
Nancy Drew By -- G2 -
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Place des Abesses - Paris by Kátia M. Trindade
social networking By cleantechjobs
cartier-bresson-henri-iza-gare-st-lazare-paris-1 932 Photo by ana.escudero