FedEx helps develop Haiti mapping platform
FedEx are amongst the companies working together to develop a web-based mapping platform to bring transparency and accountability to efforts in Haiti. The express giant has been joined in the project by the US Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) and InterAction, the largest alliance of US-based international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable.
This online platform will share critical data about resource allocation, programmatic activities deployed in Haiti and unmet needs. The prototype can be found at http://haitiaidmap.org
“Having recently visited Haiti to see firsthand the state of the recovery efforts, I’m certain this initiative will improve the flow of resources to bolster the recovery effort,” said Shane O’Connor, programme advisor, FedEx Global Citizenship. “The potential this project has to create a prototype that may be replicated to help with relief and recovery efforts around the world is especially promising. FedEx is honoured to play a role in helping make it happen.”
The prototype currently is being tested and shared with the broader humanitarian community in Haiti, including agencies working on recovery efforts with the Government of Haiti. InterAction, BCLC and FedEx believe transparency will be a powerful tool toward greater, more flexible coordination within InterAction members, their partners, the Government of Haiti, the UN-OSE, Interim Haiti Recovery Committee and Haitian civil society. The completed platform is expected by the end of the year.
