Here is my suggestion for dealing with the currently extremely uncooperative attitude of Burma regarding the international relief efforts:

Google, or another corporation which has access to up-to-date satellite images of Burma, should publish a high-resolution map of Burma before and after the disaster so that all the world can see whether the Burmese government actually does anything - and update it periodically so that day-to-day comparisons will be possible.

This might help shame the Burmese government into action and permitting foreign relief workers into the country. And since it wouldn't be done by a government agency, the Burmese government wouldn't be able to use it as an excuse to shut out the US government and their relief efforts.


If you support this idea, please post it into your own Journal, blogs, forums or anywhere else more people might see it and pass it on. The time is running out for tens of thousands of Burmese people, and the sooner an organization with the technical ability to do this pulls this off, the better.

- Jürgen Hubert