Dear Izumi: We are indeed sad to see the devastation visited on Japan but relieved that you, your family and loved ones have escaped without injury. Please accept our heartfelt condolences for those who have suffered and yet unable to message. As you may know, there are quite a few Jamaican nationals in Japan on exchange programs, mostly teachers of English Language. The government of Jamaica has already offered what little we can and we are keeping track of what's happening. Hopefully, will be able to offer a little assistance from Jamaica. Kind regards, Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround ============================= On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Izumi AIZU <iza@anr.org> wrote:
Dear AtLarge community,
Thank you for all the care and warm messages. As you have seen/read, the earthquake and Tsunami hit North Eastern part of Japan on Friday so badly.
As time goes, we are learning more damages and losses. Thousands of people are still missing mostly in the coastal areas. The nuclear stations have ongoing problems which is escalating. Afterquake became daily or hourly event even in Tokyo, but sending more uncertainty to already scared people in the severely affected areas, especially these people in the shelters. That is some half a million people with little food, oil, blankets and medicine.
I was inside a subway train when it hit. It was a little scary. The train stopped, the announcement came - Large-scale earthquake is hitting us. etc. Then after 20 min, it moved slowly to reach the next station, Ginza, very center of Tokyo. It took some three hours to walk back home, by 7 pm. All of my family members, colleagues and friends around Tokyo are fine.
A number of us are starting to discuss how to help and support the relief and recovery works to come, in terms of information gathering and sharing using the Internet (and other means as well). Members include local and also central government people, Cloud and SNS providers, software guys, etc. still informally yet. We feel sharing the information timely and effectively is one of the key elements for post-disaster activities. Not easy, though.
I hope you guys are having fruitful meetings in San Francisco, or participate remotely at home. I also hope new gTLD introduction will make significant progress including the geographic TLDs. The City of Sendai's director for Information policy is one of the most active participants of our study group for geo-TLD. He is doing his best now to help support citizens.
Anyway, I miss you all, but hope you also note what happened across the Pacific.
best,
izumi _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large
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