Crisis Response Google is a team within Google.org that "seeks to make important information more accessible around natural disasters and humanitarian crises". The team has responded in the past to the 2010 Haiti quake, 2010 floods in Pakistan, 2010-2011 floods in Queensland, Christchurch earthquake in February 2011, and the 2011 T-hsu earthquake and tsunami among other events, using Google resources and tools, tools like Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Person Finder, and Google Fusion Tables.
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Google Crisis Response organizes emergency alerts and news updates related to crises and publish information about web properties or landing pages. It also provides opportunities for donations in collaboration with agencies such as UNICEF, Save the Children, the International Medical Corps, and local aid agencies. Google also creates and provides tools to help crisis responders and affected people communicate and stay informed, such as Google Person Finder, Google Crisis Map, Google Public Alerts, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Fusion Tables, Google Docs and Google Sites.
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Google Person Finder
Google Person Finder helps find missing people. Act as a message board for survivors, families and friends of those affected by natural disasters by including live updates on missing persons. During the earthquake and tsunami T? Hoku 2011, some Japanese family members can find each other using Google Person Finder.
Google Maps
Google Maps supplies critical crisis information to the public through search engines. This is used to provide crisis information such as road closures, debris-covered areas, accessible roads, and resources such as for emergency medical stations. Using the My Maps feature, KPBS, broadcast stations, created a map that provides real-time updates on forest fires in San Diego in 2007. This map received over two million views in a few days. Google Maps is used to track Hurricane Irene lanes that hit the east coast of the US in August 2011. In addition to mapping, Google Maps also displays 3-5 days for Hurricane Irene, shows evacuation routes, and marks coastal areas that are in danger of an upcoming storm surge.
Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe that allows extensive customization with editing tools to draw shapes, add text, and integrate live feeds for information about earthquakes, cyclones, landslides, and oil spills as they occur. During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the International Medical Corps and Doctors Without Borders used the Google Earth app to track response efforts and visualize the origins of cholera cases.
Google Fusion Tables
Google Fusion Tables is an app that collects, visualizes, and shares data online with response organizations and constituencies. It instantly visualizes data ranging from residential lists to power outages in the form of maps and charts. It also helps in playing an important role in crisis decision making by identifying data patterns. During the 2011 riots in London, the app was used in the manufacture of maps showing indexes of deprivation sites and riots.
Google Sites
Google Sites facilitates the creation and updating of websites with critical response information available from anywhere in the world at any point of time. The highlight is that it can be created or updated without the help of a web developer or knowledge of HTML programming making it easier to use. Various information can be prepared such as a form to gather information, videos about the crisis, photos of destruction, and maps that protect important natural resources and that assist in search and rescue operations. Save the Children, an independent organization involved in saving children in the case of natural disasters, has regularly used this application.
Donations
Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, has donated several million dollars to various aid organizations during natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis.
References
External links
- Official website
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