::back to table of contents::	Using A PDA Interface To Access ARCE
	Ignacio Aedo, Patricia Gómez Bello, Daniel Sanz, Paloma Díaz, Jorge de Castro
full paper	Abstract: Mobile devices and wireless networks are a useful technology to support the emergency communication when a catastrophe occurs in a country or countries. In fact, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and wireless communications can help the Delegate, an eyewitness who travels to the country affected by disaster mitigation to keep his country informed about the situation which he has been living there, not only receiving and sending information, but also working online with applications. Latin-American Countries often suffer catastrophes that provoke numerous human losses and major economic and social problems. International assistance is necessary to collaborate with the affected country in its recovery. In this paper, we introduce ARCE, an inter-state tool that promotes collaboration among the members of the Latin-American Association of Governmental Organism of Civil Defense and Protection, involving twenty-one Latin-American countries in the event of disaster, and we describe m-ARCE, an application for mobile devices, such as PDA, and wireless networks, which has the goal of helping the Delegate in her task.
	Keywords: PDA, Disaster Mitigation, Multinational Cooperation, Wireless Networks, Mobile Devices.