Information Technology: How it can be helpful in the case of Natural Disaster

Vijay Kr. Chaurasiya
Faculty Member
IIIT- Allahabad

When we talk about natural disasters we always talk about how to prevent it, but in my view prevention is not possible. The only possibility we have is to predict when the disaster is going to happen.

In this article, I am proposing one of such technology which can be of help in predicting disaster information beforehand. The solution is to use wireless sensor networks in the sensitive geographical areas.

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Human Rights Transcend Computer Rights

…It's time to start thinking about how we might grant legal rights to computers.

B.Tech IIIT Allahabd
bhaskar@iiita.ac.in
http://profile.iiita.ac.in/bgupta_b03

The Final Day… A trial being held at supreme court, New Delhi, India; Ananya Agarwal argued an especially tough case. The difficulty for Ananya, an attorney-entrepreneur and pioneer in the satellite communications industry, was not that she represented an unsympathetic client. Far from it-the Niharika's story of confronting corporate oppressors moved the large audience. The problem was that the Niharika was a computer.

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