The government is calling on the American Red Cross to take on a technological challenge the dimensions of which it has never before confronted. The Federal Emergency Management Agency told the organization to set up Internet kiosks in nearly 200 shelters scattered across the hurricane-stricken Gulf Coast, many of them still without power. It must put in a phone system so that people displaced by the storm can report that they’re alive, and it is expected to create a digital mortuary to gather the names of the dead.

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