“Strengthening our Nation’s resilience to disasters is a shared responsibility, with all community members contributing their unique skills and perspectives,” Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer Brian Forde, the National Security Council Heather King and the Homeland Security Department Meredith Lee said, in the joint blog post which announced the initiative.
Strengthening our nation. Resilience. Shared Responsibility. Emergency preparedness.
Exactly.
When disaster strikes know when and where shelters have been opened to provide assistance. The Red Cross Shelter Finder is available in the iTunes store and works on iOS devices. The Shelter Finder displays open Red Cross shelters and their current population on an easy to use map interface.
Red Cross mobile apps put help in your hand.
The Red Cross Shelter Finder is available in the iTunes store and works on iOS
devices.
The Red Cross Shelter Finder is available in the iTunes store and works on iOS
devices.
From the start, the hackathon organizers shaped the interaction to enable collaboration and to strengthen participants’ insights about end-user needs. After a series of introductory conference calls where civic hackers shared their project goals and challenges, the participants convened Friday morning at the Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation in Red Hook. The hackathon included a Human-Centered Design workshop, a visit to the New York City Office of Emergency Management (NYC OEM), and field testing with volunteer first responders at the Red Hook Initiative (RHI).
Digital tools, innovation, community engagement, open government, cross-sectoral collaboration, problem solving, creating a big-bad that everyone can unite against (natural Armageddon) and empowering everyone to be part of win-win solutions.
Why can't we be doing this here?
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