Health officials in the United States are worried that if there were an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, millions of people would log on from home, crippling its Internet networks.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a federal agency, issued a report last week saying that the surge could come from workers intercommunicating and children accessing video files and games at home.
The Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of telecommunication networks during times of national emergency, however, does not have a strategy to deal with overloaded Internet networks, the GAO was quoted last week by the Washington Post as saying.
A case of national finger-pointing, perhaps? No metter.
The cautionary note is that physiological health and digital health are more enmeshed than you think. So, Singapore’s health and infocomm regulators and Internet service providers could consider mulling over the strength of the nation’s networks too,
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H1N1 Web clog
Health officials in the United States are worried that if there were an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, millions of people would log on from home, crippling its Internet networks.
The Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of telecommunication networks during times of national emergency, however, does not have a strategy to deal with overloaded Internet networks, the GAO was quoted last week by the Washington Post as saying.
A case of national finger-pointing, perhaps? No metter.
The cautionary note is that physiological health and digital health are more enmeshed than you think. So, Singapore’s health and infocomm regulators and Internet service providers could consider mulling over the strength of the nation’s networks too,
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