The Philippine government’s Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and the state-run broadcasting company, People’s Television Network (PTV), have built a disaster information system that will enable the provision of disaster-related information through the use of terrestrial digital broadcasting. Aiming to mitigate typhoon damage, the field trial utilized PTV’s broadcasting network to send information from a cloud-based disaster information system built by NEC Corporation, to those who could access approximately 30 televisions installed in around 20 government agencies. \r\nThe OCD is now proceeding with plans for full-scale introduction of this disaster information system across the country. |