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Mary E McCaffery
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Subject
New - Intergovernmental Solutions
Division Newsletter on Disaster
Management Available On-line
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Dear Colleague,
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The Office of Intergovernmental Solutions (OIS) has just completed the
latest issue of our newsletter on Disaster Management. It is available
on-line at:
http://www.gsa.gov/gsa/cm_attachments/GSA_DOCUMENT/Disaster%20Management%20Mar%202006_R2641S_0Z5RDZ-i34K-pR.pdf (07)
This edition of the Newsletter focuses on issues that arose during the
Katrina disaster, the South Asia tsunami and planning for disasters to
come. It includes articles from various countries, US federal agencies,
state and local governments, associations and industry, all of which
deal with an aspect of disaster management.
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The recovery from Hurricane Katrina posed a tremendous communication and
coordination challenge for governments and nonprofit organizations at
the federal, state and local levels. It was the largest operation ever
undertaken by the American Red Cross. The extent of the recovery effort
required widespread intergovernmental collaboration and the development
of innovative information technology (IT) service delivery mechanisms.
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The newsletter offers many examples in which innovative technology was
brought to bear on the massive recovery problems. It also illustrates
some of the efforts taken by the federal government to ensure
interagency coordination and collaboration in the dissemination of
reliable recovery-related information. The U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA), which manages the government’s National Contact
Center at 1-800-FEDINFO, ratcheted up its own operations, extended its
hours, and provided contract assistance to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency to handle almost a million calls to 1-800-621-FEMA.
GSA’s www.FirstGov.gov, the U.S. government’s official web portal,
established a central repository of links to information for hurricane
victims. Its Spanish version, www.espanol.gov, was a critical source of
information for Spanish-speaking citizens. The cross-agency Geospatial
One-stop initiative maintained a website, www.geodata.gov that provided
seamless digital information on geographic features, such as elevation,
transportation, manmade structures accessible to all recovery
organizations.
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While the 2005 hurricanes provided disaster-management wake-up calls for
governments in the United States, nations around the world experienced
similar breakdowns in coordination and communications after the
Christmas 2004 tsunami hit South Asia, killing over 200,000 residents
and tourists. Governments from Scandinavia to the South Pacific, from
the United States to the United Kingdom scrambled to provide assistance
to their citizens and their relatives and friends who were affected by
the tsunami. Many countries learned a lot about the shortcomings in
their own disaster-management capabilities, and have since instituted
new plans to handle disaster situations. Sweden, Sri Lanka, and a
number of other countries are shown looking into programs that will
allow the government to “push” text messages out to citizens’ cell
phones in the event of a national disaster.
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I hope you will enjoy reading the Disaster Management Newsletter. If
you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact
Lisa Nelson at lisa.nelson@xxxxxxxx (012)
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