Emergency Management
32 Stories
Where business goals meet social gains
News More IT companies are leveraging their core capabilities, as well as urging employees to exercise corporate social responsibility.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, IBM Corp., India, Emergency Management, GPS, Emerging Market, information technology company, emergency response, information technology, leadership
Right time to ensure efficiency of BCP spend
News Companies should work at getting better returns on business continuity planning expenditure, instead of cutting expense on such activities during a downturn.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Crisis communications, Mobile, Backup, Forbes, Cell Phone, Singapore, business continuity planning, ROI, business continuity
Online scams emerge in Katrina's wake
News Phony Web sites and malicious e-mails, purporting to offer help to hurricane victims, are circulating the Net.
Tags: Spam and phishing
Sample influenza business continuity plan
Blogs My colleague and fellow IAEM Asia member Chew Lip Heng and I started writing a sample corporate incident action plan (IA...
Texting and tweeting through Obama's swearing in
News Inauguration planners are turning to Twitter and text messaging to keep things organized when President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in January 20.
Tags: Web sites, Politics, Location-based services, Apple Inc., Twitter, Ceremony, Text Messaging, District of Columbia, Emergency Management, Washington
Aust NBN bill worries infrastructure players
News Critical infrastructure providers express concern amended National Broadband Network legislation could be costly and conflicts with anti-terrorism rules.
Tags: Regulations, Attorney General, Telecommunications, Emergency Management, Australia, Government, energy efficiency, general manager, legislator, executive director
Emergency response the weakest link in organizational resilience
Blogs I think of organizational resilience as a chain that links security, emergency management (EM), disaster recovery, busin...
Sub-prime BCM certification in Asia
Blogs What does it really mean for an individual to be "certified" in business continuity? Like the euphemism "sub-prime",...
Here come the 'Twitter, we did it first' lawsuits
News Service that makes emergency-management messaging software has sued Twitter over alleged patent infringement. The legal documents, however, are pretty vague.
Tags: Web 2.0, Legal, Twitter, Lawsuit, Emergency Management, Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, emergency response, Facebook, founder
Templates published for mass fatality incidents
Blogs Many hospitals are unprepared to deal with large numbers of dead bodies--a mass fatality incident, or MFI--that would re...
Asia earthquakes heighten BCP need
Blogs It's hard not to notice the earthquake risk around the Pacific Rim these days. I'm not sure if the risk is actually high...
Flood advice should come from real experts
Blogs Would you invite the one person in the world most associated with incompetent flood preparation and response to be the c...
Red Hat unveils government business unit
News Linux seller is also touting a new seven-year contract with the Department of Energy's national labs.
Tags: Open source
New York does final Y2K checks
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India conference bridges 'resilience professions'
Blogs There is no more important long-term challenge in protecting businesses, homes and lives than bridging the knowledge gap...
