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Crisis Response 2.0 - Empowering Developers in Times of Crisis
In the last decade, pervasive cellular data and Internet access have enabled new approaches to saving lives and reducing misery in times of crisis. Several organizations are developing systems to help disaster responders and people affected by a disaster. We hope to introduce some of the new standards and products Google is developing to help the crisis response ecosystem.
About Prem Ramaswami
Prem Ramaswami is a Product Manager with Google.org's Crisis Response on the Person Finder product, previously with Google Checkout for Non Profits, the Internet Bus Project and Google Public DNS.
About Steve Hakusa
Steve is a software engineer on the Google.org Crisis Response team based in New York City. He is working on improving access to critical information during natural disasters and humanitarian crises.