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The recently launched Corporate Disaster Resource Network (CDRN) is an initiative by Aidmatrix and Civil Society Organisations partners (CSO) to help corporates know specifically how they can help disaster struck people.
Vinod Menon, member, National Disaster Management Association, highlighted the past learnings from the Tsunami and the recent floods of Bihar, and stressed the need for an information system for companies to leverage.
CDRN, visualised as a logistics, administrative and financial co-ordination tool, as part of the National Disaster Management Authority’s Corporate Task Force, will help corporates know how they can help disaster struck people by providing real time information on products and services needed during emergencies.
J K Sinha, member, NDMA, said, “In the recent past, there has been an increase in the frequency at which disaster has struck people all across the world. And in the absence of a system that can help in forecasting or prevent man and material loss, CDRN would help in building an effective channel through which resources could be directed during times of crisis, with the help of Public Private Partnership (PPP).”
“CDRN will act as a platform where companies will be shown the specific needs. This will help organisations to choose the manner in which they can help. Relief agencies working in the disaster struck areas will update the system through the CDRN with real time demands that arise during times of crisis. Corporates, who are willing to donate during these times, can thus know how they can help by donating what is actually needed. This system was put to use during Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Gustavo that had hit the US shores recently and had worked well and in India it can help in providing much needed help on time,” said Governor Scott James McCallum, CEO, Aidmatrix.
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