Here is All You Need to Know About the Philippines and Disaster: They Call the Super-Typhoon Yolanda

In the Philippines, Super-Typhoon Haiyan is known as Super-Typhoon Yolanda.  The South East Asia regional naming convention called it Haiyan.  However, the local Philippines naming convention called it Yolanda.  (More here:  http://firstperson.oxfamamerica.org/2013/11/typhoon-who-how-yolanda-became-haiyan/)

Think about that for a minute.  The Philippines had so many typhoon in the 2013 season that they almost ran out of the alphabet, since they were already at the letter “Y”.

The Philippines is very disaster-prone:  typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and landslides.  The Filipino people are experienced and resilient in the face of all these natural hazards.

Amazingly, the Philippines is the perfect place to pilot the Heroic Improvisation process to the variety of communities here.  I wonder if the Philippines can be a good testing ground for other new disaster response techniques and technologies?