Brisbane's techies shine during flood crisis

Queensland's IT community is doing its level best to keep communications flowing during the State's flood crisis today – with one man mirroring flood information from a faltering Brisbane City Council website, and others opening WiFi channels in their neighbourhood whilst mobile signal gets choked.

The State's official online resources have taken a battering during the flood crisis. Brisbane City Council's website was intermittently offline for most of today and yesterday as residents sought updated projections for flooding in the Queensland capital.

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Flood relief tests Queensland shared services strategy

The Queensland Government has apologised after its shared call centre systems were overloaded during a flood relief telethon on Sunday night, which by consequence delayed emergency SES calls from actual flood victims.

A Channel Nine telethon – which raised over $10 million for victims of Queensland's enormous flood damage - directed calls using the same communications infrastructure flood victims use to make emergency calls to the SES (State Emergency Service).

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