Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ]

02/11/08 D4H on O’Reilly Radar

DUBLIN, IRELAND - I am in awe today, our service Decisions For Heroes has been featured on the front-page of O’Reilly Radar. Jesse Robbins (serves as co-chair of the Velocity Performance & Operations Conference and was responsible for Amazon.com’s website availability as “Master Of Disaster”) wrote some great words and is now ‘my hero’ ;-)

One of the most interesting DisasterTech projects I’ve been following is “Decisions for Heroes” led by developer and Irish Coast Guard volunteer Robin Blandford.

Decisions is like Basecamp for volunteer Search & Rescue teams. The focus is on providing “just enough” process to compliment the real-world workflow of a rescue team, without unnecessary complexity.

This is the winning approach for building systems that “serve those that serve others”, and is echoed by InSTEDD’s design philosophy and the Sahana disaster management system.

This is an innovative project with tremendous potential, and hopefully an early signal of coming changes in Emergency Management.

It feels unusual, it’s the first time emails have come in from around the world with congratulations for the coverage - before I even knew about it! Today, I spent the day on a mountain in Wicklow with the national Search & Rescue Dogs Association acting as an injured dog’s body. The discipline shown by the animals was awesome in this big game of hide & seek. I twittered photos live from my phone.

Read the full article on O’Reilly Radar.

-Robin.

Tags: coverage, jesse robbins, media, o'reilly, o'reilly radar, press

2 Comments

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02/11/08 Ciaran

Huge congrats Robin, amazing to get picked up them!

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05/11/08 Michael Q

Good stuff Robin…but I am alone in thinking Jesse looks a bit like you…maybe a relation!

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