The potential value of smart mob technologies in disaster relief and recovery, and the known vulnerabilities of existing infrastructure are both being ignored in basic ways. Worse, essential financial enterprises and communications control systems have been rebuilt with little thought to distribution of control and redundancy now to prevent failure in the future.
From Manhattan on 9-11 to Asia after the 2005 tsunami, self-organized responses by both official responders and citizens using mobile telephones and Internet communications have proved to be highly useful. At the same time, communication infrastructure failures after earthquakes and terrorist attacks multiplied the lethality of the triggering events. Yet neither incumbent private communications providers nor government agencies appear to have heeded key advice of expert panels that were set up in the wake of the disasters.
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