So Facebook has launched “Safety Check” aimed at people living/working in disaster areas enabling them to easily communicate to their loved that they are safe or to easily find out who is safe. In many ways this is very similar to “Person Finder” run by Google during...
A quick note to share a link to a piece I wrote for the CDAC Network about the Speed Portal and some of the key lessons we learned while implementing it. The Speed Portal is a portal we designed and built a working prototype of, which enables people responding to...
Below is a short list of critical components we have compiled over the past years of working in and with crisis information systems. 1. Compliance is only one part of the puzzle, not the whole thing When discussing and mapping information management requirements with...