In Vietnam, raising community awareness about natural disasters as well as community-based disaster risk management have long been identified the most effective approach to reduced disaster impacts. However, these traditional methods do not focus on the provision of necessary information on a timely basis. In order to solve the existing problems as well as promoting the use of available information technology in disaster response and relief (given the sizable 120 million mobile telephony subscribers in Vietnam, of which 35 million using 3G), ActionAid Vietnam has cooperated with Microsoft Corporation and local authorities to implement the project of “Connecting people to save lives and improve disaster risk reduction in the Mekong Delta”.