Many important relief efforts are taking place right now in Haiti and I want to make sure that the people of our local disaster communications teams are taking notes. We’ve been given the opportunity to witness a humanitarian crisis emerge real time via numerous traditional and new media outlets. This crisis is the kind of event that we hope against all odds will never happen, but plan against time to prepare for.
Please take your time in capturing this moment and try think about how you would prepare yourself, your friends, your community and your preferred social structures. Take notes, save reports, pictures, and anything that you find worthy. Below is a sample of the areas of detail that are worth reviewing:
- logistics in and out of the effected areas
- communications resilience and usage in the effected areas
- coordination of resources from unsolicited entities
- previously ignored assets now of use in the effected areas
My hope is that at some point in the next month our disaster communications teams can get together as groups and discuss what we saw (or perceived) and use it to train ourselves. Think of this as the worse case Use Case.
