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Is there ways the villages can organize themselves better in future to become more aware of dangers like natural disasters? How can the village and community structures be strengthened?
Ed Cherlin who runs a blog with many thoughts on the Tsunami issues
http://cherlin.blogspot.com wrote:
Look at the plans of Sarvodaya first.
http://www.sarvodaya.org/
They were operating in about half of the affected villages in Sri Lanka before the tsunami, and have the best-coordinated reconstruction plans.
> What are the strongest unmet needs?
I hear that more than half a billion dollars, US, has been
donated to relief efforts. What is missing is still medium-term
and long-term thinking. But see
http://www.wcai.com/article_005.htm#b
for a start on wireless communications for the entire region,
both as the basis of an early warning system for future
disasters, and to jump-start economic growth.
Keep Society with fellow beings: In India, amid the constant talk of the disaster in the south, one theme has emerged: Few wild animals have been found dead. It seems that almost all of those who could fly, run, slither or crawl away quickly left their homes in advance of the killer waves and fled to higher ground....Anuradha Sawhney (
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0110-25.htm)
Kris Dev, Tr-Ac-Net, Chennai, India. krisdev at gmail.com writes
To answer differently, we need to create an equitable, just and peaceful society.
If some are rich, to a large extent it is at the cost of the poor. In many cases, the poor are poor at thier own option. They do not want to work and earn a livelihood.
It's a tragedy we think of dole as a way out. Instead it should be creating community earning potentials, rather than individual earning potentials.
The Tamil Nadu Government in India gave immediate relief to all affected fishermen of Rs. 4,000 in cash. How much the truly affected and what they actually received is anybody's guess.
But the immediate reflector was the multifold increase in liquor sale in all the Govt. owned liquor shops and became a menace to women living in releief camps and elsewhere!!
My dream is to create a totally classless society where everyone earns a decent living and provides eneough for himself and gives the right education and support for the children till they grow up and not save by hook or crook (unethical means) for the next few generations.
The currency circulation must be banned the worldover and all transactions of all individuals and organizations must be made transprent to all thro' the web for public audit.
Every citizen can have only one bank account linked to their ID and so also every organization.
We must learn from the animal kingdom to cretae a level playing field and not to earn or save, unless it is essential. Why save for the next generation, when we don't know, how they would use it.
Do you disagree?
I do disagree a little, but this is not the place to sort this out. I think your proposal involves dramatic increase of control structures. Maybe there is an alternative
Profiles/FranzNahrada
The Free Software Community is dealing with the Tsunami Disaster
http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=50344&group=webcast