INFORMATION COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD

The purpose is to make response in such areas as evacuation notification, aid, and recovery smoother, by securing an alternate communication network and emergency power sources such as households for supplementing in the interim, in the event that a power network and a communication network in a stricken area are isolated from the area system during a disaster. An information communication device is provided with a monitoring unit, a communication unit, a recording unit, a switching unit, an acquisition unit, a creation unit, and a transmission unit. In the event that the monitoring unit detects trouble in the basic network, the switching unit switches the communication function of the communication unit from a first communication function to a second communication function. In the event that the monitoring unit detects trouble in the basic network, the creation unit creates notification information about the trouble in the basic network. The transmission unit transmits the created notification information via the switched-to communication function to a contact retrieved from the recording unit.