Business Continuity on a much grander scale
24th Sep 2008 by Alex Briggs
This Business Week article takes a look at corporations and the role they are playing in helping their local communities and citizens get back on their feet after a natural disaster.
UPS, Accenture and FEMA pooled their resources together to help found the Aidmatrix Foundation, a nonprofit group that uses information technology to ensure donations are quickly dispatched to those in greatest need.
The article also talks a lot about the business continuity lessons learned after Katrina. IBM and their work in Turkey following the 1999 earthquake.
