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How Disaster Relief could be different



Mobile phones / smartphones could help with wildlife / nature conservation, disaster relief, disease outbreaks, education, election monitoring, financial inclusion, etc.

Insurance could prepare for famines, pandemics, weather changes, climate change, and humanitarian disasters

Veterans could help with natural disasters

Volunteers could rescue people in natural disasters

More humanitarian aid could be given in cash

Airbnb / homestay hosts could provide emergency accommodations

Government disaster relief could directly aid people rather than places

FEMA could handle natural disasters meeting higher thresholds of scale and severity

Robotic fish could lead fish away from biological disasters

Facebook / social media could be used to post lost photos after disasters