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Abstract-Utilizing mobile devices for emergency management has gained much interest from governments in the past few years. This interest is mainly due to the high penetration rate of these devices among people and wellestablished, nation-wide coverage of mobile telecommunications networks in many countries around the world; making these devices a feasible means to send alerts or warnings message using short message services (SMS) or warnings for a specific geographic area (cell broadcast services (CBS)) in case of an emergency. As there are quite a number of barriers for investing in and establishing dedicated emergency management solutions in the developing countries, developing emergency solutions by the government of a developing country using its existing mobile telecommunications networks is argued to be feasible and viable. Nevertheless, a better understanding of the deployment of such mobile emergency solutions in context of developing countries is still in its genesis. In particular, the fit between the mobile phone platform and emergency management, delivery models of emergency alerts and warnings through mobile devices, the role of the private telecommunications providers and nongovernment organizations in such solutions, and the non-technical requirements of mobile government emergency solutions are all still not well articulated. A qualitative research approach was carried out to explore these matters of interest. Leximancer software tool and content analysis were used to extract themes of this study. The findings confirm mobile phones as a convenient approach for a developing country to develop its national emergency solution, but a set of requirements toward such development is still critically needed to be met.

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