New Anti-Terror Weapons: You, Me, iPhone & Twitter
Several weeks ago DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced DHS has decided to emulate the widespread World War II strategy of actively involving the public in terrorism and disaster planning and response. As the Secretary said, “For too long we’ve treated the public as a liability to be protected rather than an asset in our nation’s collective security.”
Crafting an effective strategy to productively involve the general public in homeland security should center on two technologies: the increasingly powerful and versatile mobile communication devices that most of us now carry and the Web 2.0 social media that have been created to capitalize on them. (Huffington Post)
