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This project's aim is to provide refugees the possibility of giving information of their position through easy web mechanisms, using webforms in html, chtml, xhtml-mp and wml. This will cover all the used markups for accessing the mobile web. Also, in order to help the ones without the chance of browsing the mobile Internet, a SMS system might be useful to be developed.
But the core of this idea is to provide the relatives of those refugees ways of retrieving that position data in a easy way. This will mitigate their stress, because you suffer a lot when a relative is lost in the middle of a crisis. So because of this problem, this idea wants to provide efficient ways of at least knowing that they're alive and safe.
Also, I want to provide tools to coordinate and manage the donations given by the donors. That way, they will know that on a certain spot are needed certain type of things, so they might distribute goods according to the actual necessities.
Another interesting point of this idea is that this software will contribute to track and trace the path of the donations, so if it "vanish" at any point of the chain (or if there are delays in the delivery times), that place will be properly identified. The idea is that people knows that the donations are being traced, it will reduce robberies to precious material that refugees absolutely need.
And in order to do that track & trace in an efficient and easy way, mobiles will be employed. So beyond simple webforms that gave possibility to gather information, the possibilities of employing qr codes and datamatrix codes will be developed. In theory, this will be helpful, because only with a photo shot of a mobile, the data contained in those bidimensional codes will be inputed in a fast and easy way, which results in a more efficient time management. The only downsize of this idea is that only the most moder devices count with a camera, so this might be a problem if we do not provide other ways of inputing the information.
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