Animal Finder Funding Plan
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Work-In-Progress, for review and comment only
PeopleFinderFundingPlan team members
Kieran Lal
David Geilhufe
Paola Di Maio Paola's comments
Business Plan References http://www.quickmba.com/entre/bplan/
also [A Project To Do List (http://www.katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Future_Developments)]
== Value ==
There are lots of different potential funding sources. Government, Non-Government Sources, Corporations, Mission based organizations, Venture firms, Angel investors, the multi-millionaire among us, the person who found this experience more rewarding then their day job. Don't be fooled into thinking we have to have all the answers, a complete plan, a perfect technology stack. Shoo cynics Shoo!
What is the value?
Do you believe what we did to help the victims and family members of Hurricane Katrina was valuable?
Do you believe that investment in this project had high rate return in social value? This effort was all volunteer. Hundreds of hours of technical work contributed. Thousands of hours of volunteer work.
Do you believe that investment in improving the resources we created and used in this project would be valuable for the next disaster?
Is there a significant market in emergency preparedness worldwide?
For example, the market for emergency preparedness and disaster response products and services in Japan is said to be at least as large as $35 billion, with much of the growth anticipated in the future coming through imports and related government tenders. http://www.mac.doc.gov/tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/Countries2/Japan/CountryCommercial/1998/LeadingSectors.html
FEMA budget 6.4 billion 2003: http://water.usgs.gov/osw/pubs/FEMA.htm
Does this idea take advantage of innovative new technologies and new business models to deliver value more effectively?
New technologies
1)Salesforce ASP. 2)CRM-Salesforce, CiviCRM 3)XML Schema 4)RSS feeds 5)Semantic Web representation of people finder information 6)
New business models
1)Distributed group of volunteers to do data entry. 2)Donated servers: Technorati, Advomatic, OpsWare, KatrinaHelp.info all provided servers. 3)Distributed group of volunteers located around the world can scale extremely quickly to create, manage, and distributed survivor information. 4)Open Source software can be iterated and improved to meet a wide variety of needs. 5)Data can be gathered distributed, and still respect the privacy rights of individuals and avoid abuse.
Potential deliverables
1) We need a technology stack built on Open Source Software. LAMP, PFIF, ShelterFinder, Forms for volunteers, Rich PFIF desktop clients, Front line responder clients for phones, pda's, VOIP audio recording of people finder messages.
2) It should be made to be deployed on a GRID so it could be an on demand service. We should have a fund set up to immediately purchase resources.
3) We need marketing materials to educate people on how they can contribute. How to make technical contributions, how to make volunteer contributions, how to make first-responder contributions, how to make disaster preparedness contributions. As I continue to watch TV coverage of disaster, it's obvious what an important part marketing plays in getting momentum for an effort.
4) We need international conferences which are a partnership between government, NGO, volunteers, faith based services. We need to network, and we need to exchange ideas. We need local people in our network so we have a name and face we can connect with in the next disaster no matter where it is. Most important we need just regular people who care to help us understand how to help.
5) We need training and support resources for volunteers for both technical and non-technical assistance. These should be available in as many formats as possible - audio, visual and written. We discovered during this project that a lot of volunteers were people with disabilities - offering a variety of accessible tutorials will increase participation.
Happy to help! Tidying up first sounds like a good idea [A Project To Do List (http://www.katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Future_Developments)] --Paola2 14:18, 20 Sep 2005 (EDT)
