Hello director(s) at Pakreport

My name is Tashi. I am the Assistant Projects Manager for Asia at BBC World Service Trust. I have a request/idea for us to possibly work together to maximise our aid to the flood-affected people in Pakistan.

Currently, we are running BBC Pakistan Lifeline radio programme. The project aims to help mitigate the immediate and medium-term impact of flooding on affected populations throughout Pakistan by delivering up-to-date, accurate, and impartial lifeline information to affected peoples, host communities, and humanitarian actors.

I read about your service with great interest. I think the voluntary service you provide is amazing, innovative and dynamic. Most importantly, I think that there is even a greater opportunity we could work together.

The area I am interested to know more about is your SMS infrastructure (with Digitania). It's a great medium for the flood affected people to sms their situation and location. I also think your alert sms system is outstanding. I am toying with the idea of us (BBC WST) supplying you with practial health aid information, and you could diseminate the information when: people sms to 3441, sending our your alert, or simply sending the information to a database of mobile numbers you have received information from.

I understand there will be a host of areas where we will need more clarification and work for this partnership to start. I am really eager to know what your thoughts are on this idea. I remain open to any other suggestions or willing to talk about any areas regarding cost, resources and implementation.

I would be most grateful if you could please respond, and give me your contact details so that we could take this forward.

Many thanks,
Yours sincerely,
Tashi

Tashi Gyaltsen
Assistant Projects Manager - Asia
BBC World Service Trust
Bush House, London
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 0044 (0) 20 7557 1757
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservicetrust