In Case of Emergency (ICE) is a programme designed to enable first responders, such as paramedics, firefighters, and police officers, as well as hospital personnel, to contact the next of kin of the owner of a mobile phone in order to obtain important medical or support information (the mobile phone must be unlocked and working).
It occurred to me that if we had a uniform approach to searching inside a mobile phone for an emergency contact then that would make it easier for everyone.
[4] In Germany, the In Case of Emergency concept has been criticised for two reasons:[5] Other problems include language-dependent text (ICE in English, ECU in French, etc.
), the difficulty of accessing locked, discharged, or broken phones, differences among mobile models requiring training of emergency responders.
(To avoid this, some use the tel: URI scheme to put the phone number in the ICE contact's 'home page' field.)
An alternate proposal was made within the ITU-T standard E.123 which recommended prefixing emergency contact names with numerals beginning with 0.
In response to this problem, many device manufacturers have provided a mechanism to specify some text to be displayed while the mobile is in the locked state.