Chuckanut
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Here's an interesting idea that would put the Internet to good use and save some lives. It would alert local volunteers to things like abducted children and people in medical distress.
Wall Street Journal
It's behind a paywall so here are a few quotes:
Wall Street Journal
It's behind a paywall so here are a few quotes:
I recently had a Zoom call with Elizabeth Smart—yes, that Elizabeth Smart, who in 2002 was abducted as a 14year-old and held for nine months in Utah, a harrowing experience for her and her family.
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She connected with an Oregon-based tech company to help design and promote its Q5id Guardian app, which makes use of crowdsourcing. When a child is missing, the app sends out localized alerts to a network of volunteers, all verified to avoid potential predators on the system.
Israeli entrepreneur Eli Beer. As a youth, he volunteered as an emergency medical worker and watched a child choke to death before an ambulance stuck in traffic showed up, even though a doctor lived in the same building as the child.
So he created United Hatzalah, a crowd of volunteers who respond to emergencies, often on bikes or “ambucycles” loaded with medical equipment to avoid traffic. There are more than 6,200 volunteers in Israel who can respond within 90 seconds to medical emergencies and terrorist