Google crisis response

I like off the shelf software solutions for emergency's. Preferably with interfaces which look like software everybody is already using on a day to day basis. Making your own specialist software packages usually means very high costs, lots of time and usually a new interface to get used to. It also requires lots of bandwidth and server capacity to cope with huge increases of internet traffic, which is expensive to buy and maintain and usually overloaded when a real disaster strikes. Large company's who have lots of servers and bandwidth capacity at various locations can respond quickly to these demands.  That's why i'm very happy with solutions like Google Crisisresponce.

The Google tool in action for the Typhone Yolanda: http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/2013-yolanda/index.html (Person finder tool, donation options and maps)