Neither the cargo drone nor the Kafal Local Media Server idea is good for this, as they are not mobile network based, and not disaster focused either. But we have our research results from the citizen-driven disaster response in Nepal 2015. One of our recommendations there, in the very last paragraph of the main text, is a “phone-based coordination and assessment tool” to coordinate this citizen driven response better. I think that’s a good idea for this call. We can include that we “prototyped” this idea already (which is kind of true, as Nick told me they took up our recommendation for the Tbilisi floods, where they did run such a hotline number.
And:
Applications must represent a collaboration consisting of two or more mobile network operators, NGOs, humanitarian agencies, emergency/environmental bodies and/or private sector companies. [source]
So we only need one consortium partner and are good to go. Can be another company. Perhaps we can even contact this lady from UN India’s innovation department we talked to in a Skype call after the Nepal earthquake (forgot the name … @alberto was also present I remember …).