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Article: Redesigning the ReliefWeb: the redesign process of the humanitarian community's main information management system provides a model and lessons for others contemplating a website redesign.
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- Information Management Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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"People need information as much as water, food, medicine, or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods, and resources. It may be the only form of disaster preparedness that the most vulnerable can afford. The right kind of information leads to a deeper understanding of needs and ways to respond. The wrong information can lead to inappropriate, even dangerous interventions."
--International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, World Disasters Report 2005
The mid-1990s marked a seminal moment for humanitarian information management (IM)--the advent of one of the last century's worst crises, the 1994 Rwanda ...