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Emergency Management and Tactical Response Operations

Features:

  • Discusses the value of emergency management education in the post-9/11 world
  • Clarifies the need for educating emergency managers to prepare them for emergency manager leadership
  • Bridges the gap between emergency management and first responders

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Best Practices Award

Every year, Public and Private Business, Inc. (PPBI) honors an individual, a corporation, or a public entity by presenting them with the PPBI Best Practices Award. The award recognizes those that exemplify superior leadership in furthering the understanding and development of the relationship between the public and private sectors in planning, practices, or response to a critical incident. Additionally, the recipient must have exhibited the positive aspects of partnerships that work.
Sahana Sofware Foundation Receives PPBI Best Practices Award PDF Print E-mail

Mark Prutsalis of Shanan Software Foundation accepting PPBI Best Practices AwardMark Prutsalis, CEO and President of Sahana Software Foundation received the Private and Public Businesses, Inc. (PPBI) Best Practices Award at the Disaster Recovery Journals' Spring World conference at Walt Disney's Coronoda Springs Restort in Orlanda, Florida, USA.   The PPBI Best Practices Award is awarded for exemplary planning practices or responses to a critical incident.   Sahana Software Foundation under the leadership of Mark provided the coordination and support activating Sahana open source disaster managment software withing 48 hours of the Haiti Earthquake.   

The Sahana disaster managment system is a web based open source collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing persons, organization registry, managing aid, managing volunteers, inventory management, situation updates, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

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