Cooperative deployment of Shonabondhu

Abstract

Technology intervention can play an important role during natural disasters. Flash flood, a major natural disaster taking place in Bangladesh, can be supported by continuous water level monitoring and notification based system. A low-cost sensor based system to handle flash flood required consideration of policy and local community support at its infancy. Later the system was designed using community inputs and deployed using authority support where the entire team worked with researchers cooperatively to have the ownership of the problem as well as the technology intervention.