Startup Idea : Community Emergency Response Platform

A web and app-based community application for local communities to utilise communication technology to better respond to emergencies (in particular natural disasters). Alerts are sent out to community members during emergencies through SMS, mobile app alerts and telephone response systems that allow community members to easily provide responses that advise on their safety status and actions plans. In the case of a wild fire, a community member receiving an app alert can easily advise that they are 'OK' from a list of options, and that they are 'Evacuating immediately'. A community administrator can easily see the current status of hundreds of community members from a monitoring console and offer assistance or alert emergency services where the responses require it (or if there is no response at all). The system will assist rather than replace the roles of the emergency services and allow for effective community action and mobility when time is of the essence. It greatly improves on old-fashioned 'telephone-tree' models of community response.