Friday, March 17, 2006

AMBER Alert and Missing Children

Qualcomm have a press release on PRNewsWire:

QUALCOMM is proud to use our satellite-based mobile communications and location-based services to work with NCMEC, trucking companies and their drivers across the country to help locate abducted children.

Secondary methods of distribution such as QUALCOMM's initiative, which delivers Alerts through the OmniTRACS(R) mobile communications solution, assist in achieving the overall goal of the AMBER Alert program -- to notify as many people as possible about a recent child abduction, and provide information that can help in the search for the abducted child, suspected abductor, and/or suspected vehicle and in the safer return of the child.


With initiatives like this and iKids, we may be moving back to redress the balance forsaken when social structures such as neighbourhood and village were lost. Anything similar in Australia?

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