New Zealand civil defence group adopts text updates

Link: Scoop: Bells and Whistles: Texting Given Emergency Duty

It’s free and it may even save your life.

The power of texting is being harnessed to help give Taranaki people warning of impending Civil Defence emergencies.

Free text alerts from the Taranaki Civil Defence Emergency Management Group will be broadcast as necessary to all those who subscribe to the service. Subscription is free no matter whether cellphone users are with Telecom or Vodafone.

Excellent, excellent. I’d like to see more and more organisations adopting text messaging as a medium for updating concerned parties.