Nik Zemke and a team of tech activists have developed an app that will soon be rolled out on search-and-rescue vessels operated by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the Mediterranean, reports Beatrice Tridimas of the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a March 1 story published in the Christian Science Monitor.
Migrant rescue NGOs “hope the One Fleet app, along with drones and vessel auto-detection tools in development, will make it easier for them to find and respond to boats in peril,” writes Tridimas.
Search and rescue ships using the app “will be able to log the coordinates of emergency mobile or satellite phone calls made from vessels in distress to help identify which response team is closest.”
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