Mobile Technology’s Role in Natural Disasters and Public Safety Preparedness and Response

The Rockefeller Foundation has been working with HR&A Associates to develop a workshop-based Resilience Academy that they have offered to local governments in the United States. The Academy brings together mulit-disciplinary teams of stakeholder...

This video includes interviews and highlights from a regional conference on disaster law in West Africa co-hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and ECOWAS in Dakar in September 2012.

In Haiti, thousands of people live in anguish, unsure whether their relatives are buried under the rubble or alive and unable to communicate. In the first two weeks following the earthquake, Red Cross tracing teams offered over 2000 phone calls to su...