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Indonesia: Tech innovators seek to minimize casualties of natural disasters

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The frequency with which natural disasters strike the country has inspired technology innovators to create new devices and applications to help minimize casualties.

Among the recent innovations, three students from Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, created a device called Deoterions to help detect victims of earthquakes buried as deep as 100 meters under building debris.

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AtmaGo gives users early warnings for fires, flood and crime, so they have time to prepare and take shelter, while also offering advice and solutions about jobs, education and health.

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Declaring the company’s commitment to assisting Indonesia’s disaster mitigation efforts at the Djakarta Theater ballroom in Central Jakarta, recently, Meena Palaniappan, founder and CEO of AtmaGo, said Indonesia had been picked as the flagship country of its ambitions to operate throughout Southeast Asia.

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