The asian earthquake did not only ruin the life of many and destroyed civilian infrastructures. It also created a huge telecom outage. i realized that when one of the services i use, anothr, an rss alert system through skype, run by an asian company displayed the message below.
I could read in the washington post
Less than 48 hours after the powerful quake ruptured the two crucial cables off Taiwan's southern tip, companies from South Korea to Singapore said they managed to partially restore most of their service to millions of customers….
Most international Internet data and voice calls travel as pulses of light through hundreds of undersea fiber optic cables crisscrossing the globe. The cables _ clusters of glass fibers enclosed in protective material _ are often owned by groups of telecom companies, who share costs and capacity.
The world is really flat. Today we are also concerned and directly touched by natural catastrophes even when we believe we are not. This should raise the need of social responsibility, as we will feel directly the impact of those terrible situations, miles away from where they happen.
I sincerely hope asia recovers quickly from that. This area seems to be cursed…
note: this post is a modest tentative contribution to the intiative “blogging for a better world” initiative dedicated to social responsibility. Not clear to me what this is going to be yet but i wanted to try and bring some kind of new insight.
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