Guntur D Putra

If you want to receive the best from the life you live, you will first have to give your best. Never give anything less. Because effort only releases its reward just after a person refuses to quit. Do your part and give your best. That quote always reminds and encourages myself to give the very best of mine to the world. And for this case, what will I do to contribute?

To be dealing with this, I would like to split this into three time spans. Those are before the earthquake, when the earthquake comes, and after the earthquake. This is just because, in my view, this is the most effective way to contribute.

It is unpredictable, the coming of an earthquake. Thus, wherever I will be I will make sure that everyone around me is safe. For example, if I am in a public crowd, let say a mall, I will try to make people around me not to being panic and follow the instructions of how to get safe in a public area, either by shouting to them or speaking to them in appropriate manner. But if I am at home or campus, where fewer crowd is present, I will quickly tell them how to deal with earthquake and ask them to get covered.

I’ve been working with my friends about social media for disaster. But why social media? Because, for example, when the Japan’s phone system was knocked offline by the 9.0 earthquake in the late 2011, twitter quickly became the primary means of communication in Japan. In the hours after the earthquake, Tweet-O-Meter recorder as many as 1,200 tweets per minute out of Tokyo alone. Furthermore, there were about 40,000 tweets about the US east coast earthquake. We can see the power of social media from the above statistics. The power is not only during the disaster, but also before, during, and after the disaster.

What we are working on is the reorganization of social media. We are willing to combine all the social media so that it could be working as a charm. The top 3 social media for disaster are Facebook, Tweeter, and YouTube. If those three could be working comprehensively, the power of we is no longer impossible to be achieved.

Furthermore, we are also including the online donation and tracking system so intensively that we can easily donate online. Moreover, the current problem is the lack of information of victims. Thus, there were so many donations that are not well used resulting in an ineffective way of helping. Therefore, by using Google Maps, we try to develop online system to overcome that huge problem.

We are planning to be deploying the new reinvented social media soon. As the development is still in progress, the beta version is deployed on guntur.web.id/survive.

Just like what I did in the previous earthquake disaster, I will be actively getting involved in voluntary works. I know some organizations related to this voluntary works that I can get involved. So, when the earthquake disaster comes, just make my web social media online, join the voluntary works, and contribute the best for better Indonesia.