The Katrina Data Project - Central Data Store for Missing & Safe Persons Lists
In the ongoing saga about technology and supporting the "people finding" aspect of recovery comes The Katrina Data Project - Central Data Store for Missing & Safe Persons Lists: "Our goal is to help existing groups and websites organize safe/missing person's data, providing advanced standardization, matching, and searching capabilities."
This group has also put forth a standard. I wonder how similar (or not) it is to the Katrina People Finder standard?
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posted by Nancy White at 8:21 PM
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The biggest thing about the Katrina Data Project is a focus on security and privacy.
They have a Privacy Best Practices document which they are urging other sites to read and follow in order to protect disaster victims, which can be viewed here: http://www.katrinadataproject.com/A_BestPractices.aspx
Even in a time of emergency... protecting the privacy of the vicitms is very important, and has real consequences if not done correctly.
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