The basic concept of disruption is that a low-end offering (in this case, tablets) emerges to displace existing solution (PCs).
For instance, the near-real-time analysis completed three days after the 2013 Pakistan Earthquake compared the information provided under basic human needs "disruptions" and "solutions".
If transplanted to a typical low- or middle-income Asian city, Sandy would almost certainly have resulted in far greater damage to property, loss of lives and overall disruption of basic infrastructure and services.
Liberia has gone through civil crisis for over a decade which has resulted in the destruction of infrastructure and disruption of basic services delivery particularly in Monrovia, the capital city.
For example, in the case of droughts, some of the indirect causes of morbidity and mortality have included communicable diseases, malnutrition, and disruption to basic health care (Stanke et al. 2013).
Two of the seven global targets focus on reducing direct disaster-induced economic loss and diminishing disaster damage to critical infrastructure as well as disruption of basic services by 2030.
Through the collection of the information on these indicators, UN Member States can measure their progress in disaster risk reduction efforts by 2030, including mortality, persons affected, economic loss, and damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services.
There is a tremendous increase in recognition given to the importance of social services in the SFDRR compared to the Sendai Framework Zero Draft (UNISDR 2014b) A substantial reduction in the disruption of basic services, including health and education facilities, was called for in one of seven global targets of the SFDRR.
Several of the seven global targets stated in the Sendai Framework are directly related to health in terms of reducing disaster mortality, the number of affected people, disaster damage to critical infrastructure, and disruption of basic services such as health facilities.
"There's this confusion between innovation and disruption and basic human decency and inclusion," she said.
